Image / "Remember the Alamo" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Remember the Alamo" float 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.
View of the float titled "Remember the Alamo" With a central floral star and with floral renditions of the 6 flags associated with Texas with 6 girls representing different countries riding. Carol Hill was "Miss America," Betty Yost, "Miss Confederacy," Madeline Hollingsworth, "Miss Texas," Shirley Gregory, "Miss Mexico," Betty Smith, "Miss Spain," and Marsenlane Elliott, "Miss France."
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_13449
ark:/21198/zz002hnnfq
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Smith, Betty
Yost, Betty
Tournament of Roses
Hill, Carol
Parker, Marsenlane A. Elliott, 1918-1996
Gregory, Shirley
Hollingsworth, Madeline
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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