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Description:: The theme of the 1928 Rose Parade was a League of Nations in flowers
Date:: January 2, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," float has a "National Orange Show" floral sign on the side with a giant orange on wheels as a coach, driven by Mary Jayne Shorett, as Goldilocks, and pulled by the bears, with youths dressed as pages standing at the front of the float. A floral sign at the front of the float reads "San Bernardino." The float is seen at the intersection of Colorade Blvd. and Orange Grove Blvd. The float was sponsored by the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The "Enchanted Lands" float features a large floral replica of the California Building (a Spanish Colonial building designed for the by architect Bertram Goodhue for the 1915-1917 Panama–California Exposition held in San Diego to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal) with a bell tower and dome reproduced with yellow, white and bronze chrysanthemums. A sign on the side of the float reads "San Diego, World Exposition City, 1935." On the visible corners of the float are float riders in costume with decorations featuring (L to R) a Spanish-American mission, a Chinese bridge, and a South Seas palm. The Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. is visible behind the float.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph is page from book, caption from photograph reads "PALACE LAMPS--Apple green jade lamps in unsurpassed size and perfection evolved in China's Han Dynasty 2000 years ago. Shades hollowed to proper thinness and adorned with carvings of China's four most famous legends"
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Numerous pictures and newspaper clippings covering June Moss, staring in the operas "Martha" and "Elixir of Love". Other accompanying actors are also seen.
Date:: [circa 1956]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Left photograph is part of a page from a book, caption from photograph reads "FLOWER BASKET--China famous jade carvers rival Mother nature, magically transforming a solid gem of unusual jade into the world's most priceless bouquet, hanging in everlasting freshness from New China's chains of unity."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Photograph is page from book, caption from photograph reads "JEWEL JADE "YANG TAI CHEN'--History's beauty queen. Her loveliness made roses seem ugly, snow seem grey. With her parrot, symbol of her piteous fate, she is now found immortalized in perfect jade."
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Press release describing cave and carvings discovered by Boy Scouts in the Sawtelle area of Los Angeles
Date:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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