"World Peace in 1918" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "World Peace in 1918" 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."
"World Peace in 1918" float, entered by the city of Lynwood, preceded by floral doves attached to the float by streamers, with an enthroned Goddess of Peace , Margaret Decker, and riders Betty Clark (Ada Elizabeth Clark) and Helen Whipp. Lettering on the float reads "Armistice, Peace Comes to the World." The float is passing the Goodhue Flagpole in the center of 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: Whipp, Helen N., b. 1920 or 21
Tournament of Roses
Decker, Margaret
Clark, Betty, b. 1922 or 23
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145614
Latitude: -118.16039
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_13447
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnncp
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