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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
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"
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 12584, 27
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses Parade
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1387_12584-01
12584
ark:/21198/zz002553j4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Culture
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Tournament of Roses
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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