Image / "King of Flowers" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

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Title: "King of Flowers" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: January 2, 1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2043
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
"King of Flowers" float entered by the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona. "LA County Fair" is written in flowers on the side of the float. The float is drawn by 6 Norman horses from the Kellogg School of Animal Husbandry. 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.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3280
ark:/21198/zz002cnnpp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
Animals
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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