"Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Item Overview
- Title
- "Chinese Empress" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
- Date Created
- January 1, 1936
- Date
- 1936-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
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The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Chinese Empress Wan Qua Fei float in a staging area, probably on S. Orange Grove Blvc. The float features a carriage lead by dragons with Lili Arikawa seated on a throne as the empress, hanging baskets and lanterns, and with 'Long Beach' written on top.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Tournament of Roses
Arikawa, Lili - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Culture
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025547z
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .