The Alabama Crimson Tide football team arriving at the Pasadena train station for their appearance in the 24th 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.
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 his dream of the world's largest telescope come to fruition in his lifetime.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A similar photograph appears with the headline, "A Long Line of March from Start to Finish of Golden Memories Parade," Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan 1939: 13.
The camera looks down from the Rose Bowl Stadium's stands during the football game between Stanford and Columbia. Along the bottom edge, spectators fill a section of the stands. Beyond them, crowds spill onto the football field. A goalpost rises from the end zone at right. Mostly vacant stands wrap across the background.
The camera looks across the Rose Bowl Stadium's field during the game between Alabama and Stanford. In the near distance at center, Jimmy Angelich (52) of the Crimson Tide runs towards camera with the football. He appears to have a clear pathway. Nearer to camera and to the right of Angelich, Stanford no. 22 runs toward Angelich. A referee stands in partial view along the left edge. At left, goalposts rise behind the play. In the background, spectators fill the stands.
Likely related to the article, "Columbia Wins, 7-0; Stanford Upset in Rose Bowl; Lions Score Touchdown in Second Quarter With Barabas Tallying; Invaders Make Plucky Stand to Keep Goal Clear of Stanford Invasions," Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 1934: 1