"Benjamin Franklin" and "Pioneer Memorial" floats at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "Benjamin Franklin" and "Pioneer Memorial" floats at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Date: 1936-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
View of the Altadena float submission showing Benjamin Franklin (Howard J. Stevenson) and a young assistant (Mickey McCarty) working at a hand press. Close behind is Inglewood's "Pioneer Memorial" float with a scout on a prancing floral steed with pioneer women and scouts seated below (Helen Robbins, Jean Teel, Alice Carmichael, Betty Ann Earl and Barbara Ziegler).
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Teel, Jean
Earl, Betty Ann, b. 1922 or 23
Carmichael, Alice Viola, 1923-2006
Robbins, Helen Laverne, 1923-1991
Stevenson, Howard J., 1913-1971
McCarty, Mickey
Ziegler, Barbara
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13392
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnkg8
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