Photographer: Snyder, Bill - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of a pioneer theme float with a scout on a prancing floral steed with pioneer women and scouts seated below (Helen Robbins, Jean Teel, Alice Carmichael, Betty Ann Earl and Barbara Ziegler). The float is at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: View of the Chinese Empress Wan Qua Fei float. The float features a carriage lead by dragons with Lili Arikawa seated on a throne as the empress with 2 girls seated below her, hanging baskets and lanterns, and with 'Long Beach' written on top. All of the participants are dressed in light-colored Chinese silk, including 5 outwalker boys with baskets suspended from shoulder poles. Following is the Huntington Park's "Vanishing Race" float
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Australia float with a floral lyre bird at the front and Peggy Gamble, Queen of Beauty, seated on a floral kangaroo. The float is seen passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Two girls in rickshaws drawn by boys dressed in Chinese silk costumes preceding the "Chinese Empress" float entered by the city of Long Beach. The are passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Floral coach with 4 young women in colonial dress, including Doris Hall, Betty Bennett, Barbara Williams and Carlos Glass.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: View of the Metropolitan Water District float with King Snow at the back, a surveyor in the middle and a young woman personifying the thirteen cities of the district at the front. The float is seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: View of the Laguna Beach entry float of flowers arranged into image of humorist Will Rogers, to commemorate his 1935 death. This view was taken near 337 W. Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Float representing the China clipper airplane with 'Los Angeles' and 'China Clipper' written on it viewed by crowd to celebrate Los Angeles Pacific air connections. Riding that float are Mariella Ferguson in Spanish costume at the front, and Virginia Grondahl in Hawaiian costume at the back. The float is passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: "World Peace in 1918" float, entered by the city of Lynwood, preceded by floral doves attached to the float by streamers, with an enthroned Goddess of Peace , Margaret Decker, and riders Betty Clark (Ada Elizabeth Clark) and Helen Whipp. Lettering on the float reads "Armistice, Peace Comes to the World." The float is passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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