"Christopher Columbus" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "Christopher Columbus" float at 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

Description: The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Float showing Christopher Columbus (Paul A. Jones) presenting 2 Indians to the King (Charles Luse) and Queen (Mary Louis Tompkins) of Spain, entered by the city of Santa Barbara. The float is seen passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
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
Luse, Charles
Jones, Paul A., 1897-1960
Tompkins, Mary Louise, b. 1920 or 21
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145671
Latitude: -118.160863
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnnhr
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Rights Country: US
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