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Title: Will Rogers commemorative float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Contributor: Snyder, Bill
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 for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
View of the Laguna Beach entry float of flowers arranged into image of humorist Will Rogers, to commemorate his 1935 death. The float rounds the corner at Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
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
This view was taken near 337 W. Colorado Blvd.
Text from negative sleeve: 4304, Feb 4-36. Snyder negs on Parade, Floats only.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13415
ark:/21198/zz002hnm8n
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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