"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 Photographic 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
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena - Names
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McDougel, Anna
Schwartz, Sammy
Tournament of Roses
Williams, Alice - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14549950316560
- Latitude
- -118.16019058227500
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_13430
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnmsd
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .