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 celebration, ca.1910

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Motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses celebration, ca.1910

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Photograph of a motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses celebration, ca.1910. A box-like float covered in flowers and other plant material rides along on a paved street with a set of tracks. A group of young women in fancy dress can be seen in the box-shaped float, along with a single man. Archways of flowers extend above the people while a portion is painted over with black and white paint in the shape of flowers. Buildings are visible in the background while a crowd of people can be seen in the right distance. Photoprint identifies the colors of the float as "red, white and green".

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Title Motorized float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses celebration, ca.1910

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm. (aacr2), 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 1910

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-m11250

Identifier 46147 (accession number), CHS-46147 (call number), CHS-46147 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10672 (legacy record id), chs-m11250 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-11400 (legacy record id), 1-37-327 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10672

Unique identifier UC117761

Legacy Identifier CHS-46147.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.1 in × 14.5 in at 300dpi
45.9 cm × 36.8 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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