Image / "Conquest of India" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Conquest of India" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1936
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.
"Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" is the theme of the float submitted by the Pasadena Water Department, with 2 veiled ladies seated before a temple (Alice Williams and Anna McDougall) and Alexander the Great (Sammy Schwartz) riding a golden chariot. Three of the 8 out-walkers are visible; young men dressed as Indian princes.
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_13377
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Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
McDougel, Anna
Schwartz, Sammy
Williams, Alice
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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