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Description:: The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: "Adhorable Babies" float carrying 18 children in a golden, cup-shaped trophy in the center with a floral sign reading "Our Future Champions" and 29 children on the main platform dressed in costumes of different countries competing in Olympiads. The float is decorated with shields ornamented to look like coats of arms with carnations and pigeons were steadily released from the trophy during the parade. The float was lead by another small float in the form of a swan (image no. 21198/zz002cp5vz) and was entered by the Adohr Creamery Company. the float location in the image is the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three-layer wedding cake float on a gondola-like boat and topped with boy and girl, Harold Van Horn and Ardath Aline Elsasser, dressed as a bride and groom beneath an archway. Inscribed in flowers on the side of the boat: Davis.... The float was entered by the Davis Perfection Bakery.
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: A Tournament of the Roses parade float with a European theme (probably the entry from Czechoslovakia). The participant furthest to the left is wearing a traditional Eastern-European dress, while the three participants to the right of the float are wearing gowns. The float is decorated with palms and other various foliage, and a two-dimensional sun is suspended within an arch flanked by monumental vases of flowers. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard.
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: 5 women, 3 standing in Spanish-style dresses, 2 dancing (1 in Spanish-style dress, 1 in Spanish-style pants, shirt, and sombrero), outdoors, at Harry Gorham residence, 316 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Eugene R. Plummer and his family once owned sections of Los Angeles including the Hancock Park area, mid-Wilshire, Hollywood Hills, and West Hollywood. The site of his home was purchased by the County of Los Angeles in 1937 and is known as Plummer Park, West Hollywood.
Date:: August 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: "Mandalay" float representing the love boat in the play "East is West." One participant is wearing a traditional Chada hat and costume while others don tunics and round hats. The float was entered by the city of Whittier.
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Three-layer wedding cake float on a gondola-like boat with boy gondolier and girl riding in the boat and topped with boy and girl, Harold Van Horn and Ardath Aline Elsasser, dressed as a bride and groom beneath an archway. Inscribed in flowers on the side of the boat: Davis.... The float was entered by the Davis Perfection Bakery.
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: "La Paloma" float with white doves suspended over a garden inhabited by 6 persons in Spanish attire, including a man in a hat playing lute near center, and singers Jose Arias, Thea La Forte, Sybil Tyler and Ella Archer. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard.
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Russ Carruthers Orchestra posing, 8 men in tuxedos, 1 woman in gown with microphone, possibly 2 separate photographs, combined with 3rd photograph of billboard announcing community dance
Date:: July 7, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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