California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Horse-drawn float covered with pampas grass in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, ca.1903

(USC DC Image)

Horse-drawn float covered with pampas grass in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, ca.1903

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Photograph of a horse-pulled float covered with pampas grass at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses celebratory parade, ca.1903. Near the Hotel Green It is driven by a man wearing a light-colored suit and fedora. The two horses are black. The float is standing in the dirt street. A wooden fence separating the road from some trees is visible behind. Further behind part of some 3-story brick buildings are visible.

Asset Metadata

Title Horse-drawn float covered with pampas grass in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, ca.1903

Subject Festivals and parades -- Rose Parade -- Floats, horsedrawn (file heading), Parade floats (lcsh), Parades (lcsh), performance sites (adlf), Tournament of Roses (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1903

Type images

Format 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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)

Date Created 1903

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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-m11243

Identifier 1453 (accession number), CHS-1453 (call number), CHS-1453 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10666 (legacy record id), chs-m11243 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11393 (legacy record id), 1-37-189 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10666

Unique identifier UC118023

Legacy Identifier CHS-1453.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.2 cm × 33.3 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

Linked assets

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

Conceptually similar

Horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1900

Horse-pulled float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, 1905

Group of men in a horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1900-1910

Horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1906

Pasadena Episcopal Curch Ladies float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, 1906 (1905?)

Horse-drawn float in the parade for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, 1906

Formation of young boys standing near a horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1905

Gent's horse-drawn "Tally-ho" float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1895

The motorized Altadena float parading down the street in the Pasadena's Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1906

Horse-drawn float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses celebration, ca.1906

Group of men seated in a decorated automobile for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, ca.1903

Rear quarter view of a horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, January 1, 1891

Horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1906

Decorated carriage, "Tallyho", drawn by six black horses during the Tournament of the Roses Parade, ca.1895-1899

Self-propelled float covered in flowers in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, ca.1906

Horse-drawn float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1907

Blimp-shaped float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, ca.1900

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

Pampas grass festooned carriage drawn by four horse team in La Fiesta de Los Angeles 1894

Hotel floats in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Colorado Street, ca.1926

Similar tones

View images with similar tones