Genre: news photographs / Names: Tournament of Roses - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the "Legend of the Chrysanthemum" with Fugi Fugikawa in a flower petal kimono and carrying a parasol made of blossoms standing on a bridge of red pompoms over a pool of blue delphiniums. The scene is completed with a white narcissus heron, a tree and stepping stones of bronze pompoms. The float was entered by the Burbank City Schools and is shown passing the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spectators next to the float of the Rose Parade Queen, Muriel Cowan, featuring a large Russian Firebird composed of yellow chrysanthemums and lavender sweet peas at the front and three Russian mosques with domes covered in yellow pompoms at the back, behind the queen's throne. The float was photographed on Orange Grove Blvd., probably before the start of the parade.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1929 fortieth annual Rose Parade was "Poems in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1929 fortieth annual Rose Parade was "Poems in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the Chinese Empress Wan Qua Fei float. The float features a carriage lead by dragons with Lili Arikawa seated on a throne as the empress with 2 girls seated below her, hanging baskets and lanterns, and with 'Long Beach' written on top. All of the participants are dressed in light-colored Chinese silk, including 5 outwalker boys with baskets suspended from shoulder poles and a girl riding in a rickshaw drawn by a boy.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two girls dressed as butterflies carrying the banner announcing the parade: "44th Annual Tournament of Roses" at the start of the parade route.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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