"100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "100% American" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Photographer: Snyder, Bill
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 "100% American," designed by Antelope valley high school students around the theme of the melting pot. Seated in a bed of flowers are girls of 4 countries: Holland, Russia, Japan and the United States. Perched on the throne is Georgia Graves as the Goddess of Liberty. The float is seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, Feb 4-36. Snyder negs on Parade, Floats only.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145671
Latitude: -118.160863
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13436
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnn00
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Rights Country: US
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