Location: Pasadena (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Events and Crowds--California--Pasadena - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Prize-winning parade float featuring women in costume representing one of the "Big Five" nations: the United States, England, France, China, and Russia. The float was sponsored by the International Association of Machinists, District Lodge 727, and engineers from the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The float was used in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade in 1946. The women in the photograph are from left to right: Sherry Purkiser, Miss Russia; Ronnie Baukand, Miss China; Marjorie Hemmingway, Miss United States; Patricia Kubelka, Miss France; and Jeanne Gilliland, Miss England.
Date:: January 1, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowds gather as the 20-ton, 200-inch lens for what would be the Hale Telescope arrives in Pasadena, CA, after a cross-country rail trip from Corning, NY. The giant lens was made from Pyrex, then a new material, by the Corning Glass Works company. Astronomer George Ellery Hale, one of the founders of the California Institute of Technology, secured a $6 million grant from the Rockefeller Institute to build both an observatory and a telescope with a 200-inch primary mirror, to be administered through Cal Tech. Hale built his observatory on Mt. Palomar in San Diego County, 90 miles southeast from the Mt. Wilson observatory in Pasadena, which Hale had also founded in 1904. Construction of the Hale telescope was delayed by World War II, and the telescope did not see its first light until January 26, 1949. George Hale died in 1938, and thus did not see the telescope that bears his name completed.
Date:: April 10, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Crowd at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, perhaps after the Tournament of Roses Parade. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is on the far left.
Date:: [between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The Alabama Crimson Tide football team arrives in Pasadena for their appearance in the 1938 Rose Bowl Game. Alabama lost the game (13-0) to the California Golden Bears from UC Berkeley, ending a four game winning streak in Rose Bowl appearances for the Crimson Tide.
Date:: [December 24, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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