Image / Will Rogers Commemorative float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: Will Rogers Commemorative float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1936
1936-01-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A tribute to Will Rogers, following his death the previous year, at the 1936 Tournament of Roses Parade, surrounded by an unknown number of spectators. A tribute by the Union Oil Company, the float depicts a riderless horse in front of a large star to represent Rogers's career. The float won the grand prize award for the parade.
The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses Parade
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 12584, 27
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz002553j4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Culture
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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