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Description:: Dr. Clark B. Millikan on ladder looking into Caltech wind tunnel while another man observes from below. Reported in "CALTECH TESTS WIND IN TUNNEL: Guggenheim Graduate Unit Trying Out Planes" Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1929: A1.
Date:: July 20, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Float sponsored by the Sherman Institute, an off-reservation boarding school for Native American students. Now called the Sherman Indian High School, it opened in 1892 as the Perris Indian School and later changed its name to the Sherman Institute. On the right are four Native American students beside a decorative tepee. On the left are four Native American students dressed to represent trades taught at the school, with one young woman dressed as a nurse and one young man wearing a smock. Students identified in the newspaper article include Charles Bautista, Adelia Brown, Pearl Beuis, Samuel Cachora, Adolph Sambo Pahvitse, Elsie Sasalque, and Jose Tajete. The float is at the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. Reported in "FLOATS TELL PEACE STORY: League of Nations Theme Carried Out by Chain of Masterpieces Done in Flowers," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan. 1928: A1.
Date:: January 2, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Richard C. Tolman and Albert Einstein standing in front of a blackboard at the California Institute of Technology. Reported in "TOLMAN TALKS TO SCIENTISTS: Expanding Universe Theory Subject of Lecture Dr. Einstein Takes Part in Discussion World to Go on Forever, Speaker Declares," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jan. 1932: A2.
Date:: January 8, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The float is a reproduction of the San Gabriel Mission with members of the cast of the Mission Play dressed in costumes. Three outwalkers dressed as monks are visible. The float was entered by the Mission Play.
Date:: January 1, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 1927 was the first year the Rose Parade had a theme, "Songs in Flowers," with each float typifying a song. Margie Middleton and Ruth Sexton, riders on the "Vase of Flowers" float, pose in costume in front of a float, probably before the start of the parade. Photograph appears in "PASADENA'S 38th ANNUAL ROSE TOURNAMENT," Los Angeles Times, 02 Jan. 1927: 27.
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Frank Orun Waddey, Gordon "Coot" Watkins, Raleigh Eugene Drennon, Henry Rudolph "Peter" Pund, John Joseph Westbrook, Kenneth Thrash, and Thomas Gilmer Jones.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Spectators by the Goodhue Flagpole as float entitled "First Capital California San Jose 1850" goes by.
Date:: January 2, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Three officials from California Institute of Technology posing with a steam shovel at 1930 groundbreaking ceremonies for dormitories. Reported in "NEWS OF SOUTHERN COUNTIES: GROUND BROKEN FOR CALTECH Million-Dollar Dormitories Begun With Steam Shovel Student Body President at Throttle of Machine More Than 1000 Persons See Unique Ceremonies," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jun. 1930: A8.
Date:: [circa June 2, 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Dr. Clark B. Millikan on ladder looking into Caltech wind tunnel while another man observes from below. Reported in "CALTECH TESTS WIND IN TUNNEL: Guggenheim Graduate Unit Trying Out Planes" Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1929: A1.
Date:: July 20, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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