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Title
Horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1900. The float is facing to the left and is a wagon covered in flowers and pulled by a single dark horse. The float is being ridden by two people dressed as wizards, complete with pointed hats and long gowns covered with stars and moons
even the horse has stars on its blinders and there are stars at the center of the wheels of the cart. The float is stopped in front of a wood-paneled house with several trees and a picket fence in the yard.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11235
USC-1-1-1-11385 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-9978
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11235
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-9978.jpg
Subject
Festivals and parades--Rose Parade--Floats, horsedrawn
Parades
Parade floats
Tournament of Roses
Housing areas
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
Pasadena
USA
Source
1-37-196 [Microfiche number]
9978 [Accession number]
CHS-9978 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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