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Title: "George Washington" 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 of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of a float illustrating the tale of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, submitted by the Pasadena Junior and Senior Chambers of Commerce. Behind the tree is Jack Burzell, dressed as the boy George Washington, and behind him is a round cameo-type portrait of Washington executed in flowers. The float is seen passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of 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_13453
ark:/21198/zz002hnnks
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Burzell, Jack, 1926-1985
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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