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"Benjamin Franklin" and "Pioneer Memorial" floats at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Benjamin Franklin" and "Pioneer Memorial" floats 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.
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of the Altadena float submission showing Benjamin Franklin (Howard J. Stevenson) and a young assistant (Mickey McCarty) working at a hand press. Close behind is Inglewood's "Pioneer Memorial" float with a scout on a prancing floral steed with pioneer women and scouts seated below (Helen Robbins, Jean Teel, Alice Carmichael, Betty Ann Earl and Barbara Ziegler).
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_13392
ark:/21198/zz002hnkg8
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Teel, Jean
Earl, Betty Ann, b. 1922 or 23
Carmichael, Alice Viola, 1923-2006
Robbins, Helen Laverne, 1923-1991
Stevenson, Howard J., 1913-1971
McCarty, Mickey
Ziegler, Barbara
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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