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Prize-winning parade float sponsored by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and the International Association of Machinists appears in Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1946

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Title: Prize-winning parade float sponsored by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and the International Association of Machinists appears in Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1946
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1946
1946-01-01
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.
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.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00280f0p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Crowds--California--Pasadena
Arts
International Association of Machinists
Tournament of Roses
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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