"Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- "Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
- Photographer
- Snyder, Bill
- Date Created
- January 1, 1936
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Notes
- Description
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A floral replica of an Indian temple on the back with Alice Williams and Anna McDougal as veiled princesses seated on the steps, and two floral chargers pulling Alexander, played by Sammy Schwartz, in a golden chariot in the front. The float was entered by the Pasadena Water Dept. The float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena - Names
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McDougel, Anna
Williams, Alice
Schwartz, Sammy
Tournament of Roses - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14549950316560
- Latitude
- -118.16019058227500
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_13430
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnmsd
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.