"World Peace" float at the Annual Ocean Park Children's Floral Parade, Santa Monica, 1936

Item Overview

Title

"World Peace" float at the Annual Ocean Park Children's Floral Parade, Santa Monica, 1936

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

Aug 30, 1936

Date

1936-08-30

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Photograph of a "World Peace" float at the Seventeenth Ocean Park Children's Floral Parade. The float is decorated by flowers, with the United States Flag cut out in the shape of a shield forming the back of the float. In front, along with the sign "World Peace" is a white dove. A young girl, wearing the badge number "105" sits dressed in a long white gown, flanked by two boy scouts. Another young girl poses in front of the float. A couple (possibly parents of the children) stand behind, possibly identified as La Von Merrill and Mrs. Belle (see image: ark no. 21198/zz002d8p09).
The event was covered in a Los Angeles Times article, "Hundreds of Children to be in Floral Parade," 27 Aug. 1936: 10.
The Ocean Park Annual Children's Floral Parade was a community event started in 1919. The 1936 parade was supported by the Santa Monica Bay district clubwomen and civic leaders with Mayor Gillette and the city council also lending their support. The flowers were supplied by city parks and private gardens.
Refer to Ark: 21198/zz002d8p09; [handwritten bottom left] La Von Merrill, Mrs. Belle, 650 Flower Ave, Peace World

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2927, Ocean Park, Children's Parade, 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

acetate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Children's Floral Parade (Ocean Park, Calif.)

Location

California--Santa Monica

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flower arrangements--California--Santa Monica
Ocean Park Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Parades & processions--California--Santa Monica
Floats (Parades)--California--Santa Monica
Boy Scouts--California--Santa Monica