Image / "100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1936
1936-01-01
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.
View of the "100% American," designed by Antelope valley high school students around the theme of the melting pot. Seated in a bed of flowers are girls of 4 countries: Holland, Russia, Japan and the United States. Perched on the throne is Georgia Graves as the Goddess of Liberty.
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13362
ark:/21198/zz002hnjf8
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Graves, Georgia
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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