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Title: "Orange is King" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1930
1930-01-01
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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
"Orange is King" float with an enthroned orange king and 2 heralds, pulled by a train engine with the date of the National Orange Show in San Bernardino on the side "Feb. 13-29." Gordon Elliott is the king and Nancy Caswell and Alta Faulkner are the heralds. The float is at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3470
ark:/21198/zz002cp2vh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Events
Transportation
Entertainment
National Orange Show
Faukner, Alta
Caswell, Nancy
Elliott, Gordon
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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