Image / "Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Chinese Empress" float in 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.
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of the Chinese Empress Wan Qua Fei float. The float features a carriage lead by dragons with Lili Arikawa seated on a throne as the empress with 2 girls seated below her, hanging baskets and lanterns, and with 'Long Beach' written on top. All of the participants are dressed in light-colored Chinese silk, including 5 outwalker boys with baskets suspended from shoulder poles. The float is at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and 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_13427
ark:/21198/zz002hnmpv
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arikawa, Lili
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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