"Treasure Ship" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- "Treasure Ship" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934
- Date Created
- January 1, 1934
- Date
- 1934-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
The "Treasure Ship" float with a Spanish galleon bearing golden gifts; the intended inhabitants of the float were driven away by the rain. It was created out of 50,000 flowers, predominant among them crysanthemums, sweet peas, and roses. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the Hotel Vista del Arroyo.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14560605522830
- Latitude
- -118.16081285476700
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Arts
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025420x
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .