"Remember the Alamo" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "Remember the Alamo" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Date: 1936-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of the float titled "Remember the Alamo" With a central floral star and with floral renditions of the 6 flags associated with Texas with 6 girls representing different countries riding. Carol Hill was "Miss America," Betty Yost, "Miss Confederacy," Madeline Hollingsworth, "Miss Texas," Shirley Gregory, "Miss Mexico," Betty Smith, "Miss Spain," and Marsenlane Elliott, "Miss France."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Tournament of Roses
Gregory, Shirley
Hollingsworth, Madeline
Smith, Betty
Hill, Carol
Parker, Marsenlane A. Elliott, 1918-1996
Yost, Betty
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnkzh
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