California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1917

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Motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1917

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Photograph of a motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1917. The float is facing to the left and is composed of a swan sculpted from flowers attached to the front of an open car decorated with plants. There is a group of men riding in the car, and, except for the driver who is dressed in traditional chauffeur clothes, all of the men are wearing dark suits and bowler hats. The swan is made of white flowers and has a ribbon running from its neck to the car. The float is parked in front of a palm tree; more trees and a house are visible in the distance.

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Title Motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1917

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1917

Subject Festivals and parades -- Rose Parade -- Floats, motorized (file heading), housing areas (adlf), Parade floats (lcsh), Parades (lcsh), Tournament of Roses (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Pasadena (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1917

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 17 x 22 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11251

Identifier 9979 (accession number), CHS-9979 (call number), CHS-9979 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10673 (legacy record id), chs-m11251 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11401 (legacy record id), 1-37-197 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10673

Unique identifier UC117968

Legacy Identifier CHS-9979.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.3 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
44.0 cm × 34.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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