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. The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers." Float representing the China clipper airplane with 'Los Angeles' and 'China Clipper' written on it viewed by crowd to celebrate Los Angeles Pacific air connections. Riding that float are Mariella Ferguson in Spanish costume at the front, and Virginia Grondahl in Hawaiian costume at the back. 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_13365 ark:/21198/zz002hnjjt
Subject
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena Grondahl, Virginia Tournament of Roses Ferguson, Mariella
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