"Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Photographer: Snyder, Bill
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Date: 1936-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: View of the Chinese Empress Wan Qua Fei float. The float features a carriage lead by dragons with Lili Arikawa seated on a throne as the empress with 2 girls seated below her, hanging baskets and lanterns, and with 'Long Beach' written on top. All of the participants are dressed in light-colored Chinese silk, including 5 outwalker boys with baskets suspended from shoulder poles. Following is the Huntington Park's "Vanishing Race" float
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, Feb 4-36. Snyder negs on Parade, Floats only.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145771
Latitude: -118.158220
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13408
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnm11
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