"100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- "100% American" 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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The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of the "100% American," designed by Antelope valley high school students around the theme of the melting pot. Seated in a bed of flowers are girls of 4 countries: Holland, Russia, Japan and the United States. Perched on the throne is Georgia Graves as the Goddess of Liberty. The float is seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. - 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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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena - Names
- Tournament of Roses
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.145671
- Latitude
- -118.160863
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_13436
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hnn00
- 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
- 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 .