Manuscripts

Horse-drawn parade float

Description: Glass plate with a view of a horse-drawn parade float in an unknown location. There are two men in white outfits, each standing next to a pair horses that is draped in white with feathery horns behind their ears. Two young men, one in an army uniform, one in a navy uniform, are seated on the white float, holding a rifle, which they have crossed in front of a woman or statue of a woman draped in the American flag. There are children with bicycles on the side of the tree-lined street and a car partially blocked by the float.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: undated
Call number: mssLattaS, Box 110, Folder 1, Item 1
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Small parade float with three children

Manuscripts

Glass plate with a view of a small parade float. Two boys in paper hats are holding the handle for the wagon that the float is built on, while a girl with curly hair dressed as a nurse sits on the float decorated with streamers.

mssLattaS, Box 113, Folder 12, Item 1

Rose Parade float, Pasadena. approximately 1909?

Visual Materials

A horse-drawn Rose Parade float entitled "Pasadena the best on Earth", with a large flower-covered globe. The horses are draped with cloth with the words "Pasadena Reatly Board" on the side. One of the horses has an African American man dressed in white holding its bridle.

photCL 402 (37008A)

Floats in early Tournament of Roses parade, Pasadena. approximately 1909

Visual Materials

A float with a group of people in costumes in an early Tournament of Roses parade. Men stand in front of the float wearing leggings and tunic-like shirts, while women in white dresses and fancy headdresses are seated on the float.

photCL 402 (37008H)

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Horse-drawn Parade Float – Ministers, Crows Landing

Manuscripts

The collection contains Frank F. Latta's research material from his five decades of researching the history of California's San Joaquin Valley and Miller & Lux, in particular dry farming known as skyfarming. Subjects include: agriculture and farming in the San Joaquin Valley, the development of agricultural machinery (combines, plows, reapers, scrapers, threshing machines, tractors and various types of harvesters), livestock, ranches, cattle, and crops, mostly wheat. Also covered are: early aviation, early automobiles, bears, crime, the Dalton Gang, the Donner Party, earthquakes, education and schools in the San Joaquin Valley, floods, freight and steamships on the San Joaquin River, gold mines, irrigation, canals and water rights in San Joaquin Valley, land grants, livestock, lumber, outlaws, pioneers, the Presbyterian Church in California, ranches, rivers, roads, saddlery, sheepherding in California, overland journeys to California and California politics, government and history. Also talked about are women, African Americans, Chileans, Chinese, Mormons, Native Americans and Jews in California. The collection contains roughly 180 oral interviews with people living in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s through the 1970s. One of the series contains drafts of the unpublished manuscript Sky Farmers and Mule Skinners with Something about Hay Muckers, Buckaroos, and Bindle Stiffs and a Sheepherder or Two. Frank F. Latta worked on this manuscript for five decades.

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Horse - drawn parade float (undated). 1 item

Manuscripts

mssLattaS

Rose Carnival Parade float

Visual Materials

Photo of young man with horses pulling a parade float with two more men and a teepee on it.

photCL 39 (379)

Horse-drawn parade float

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