"Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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

Description: 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.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Names: McDougel, Anna
Schwartz, Sammy
Tournament of Roses
Williams, Alice
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14549950316560
Latitude: -118.16019058227500
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_13430
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnmsd
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