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

Description:: Volunteers from the 442nd Combat Infantry decorate floats for the Tournament of Roses parade.
Date:: December 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: Aerial view of the Tournament of Roses parade, which returned to Pasadena this year for the first time since 1941. The annual parade was not held during the war
Date:: January 1, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women attaches rose petals to a float in preparation for the Tournament of Roses parade.
Date:: January 1, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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