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"Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Conquest of India by Alexander the Great" 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.
A floral replica of an Indian temple on the back with Alice Williams and Anna McDougal as veiled princesses seated on the steps, and two floral chargers pulling Alexander, played by Sammy Schwartz, in a golden chariot in the front. The float was entered by the Pasadena Water Dept. The float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove 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_13430
ark:/21198/zz002hnmsd
Subject: Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Williams, Alice
Tournament of Roses
Schwartz, Sammy
McDougel, Anna
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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