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Tribute float to Will Rogers at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: Tribute float to Will Rogers at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Contributor: Snyder, Bill
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.
Float created as a tribute to Will Rogers shows a white horse, probably Soapsuds, with a lowered head and empty saddle, its reins trailing on the ground, on a raised platform. A radiant star is behind Soapsuds and a U. S. flag is draped on the platform in front of him. The float was entered by the Union Oil Company. It was photographed as it passed the Goodhue flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Text from negative sleeve: 4304, Feb 4-36. Snyder negs on Parade, Floats only.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13410
ark:/21198/zz002hnm32
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Soapsuds (Horse)
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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