23 photographs of the annual New Year's Rose Parade in Pasadena, CA, 1940. This was the first year the Tournament of Roses was televised, at this time by Don Lee Broadcasting's W6XAO. Floats include:
Speech of Hon. John Cadwalader, of Pennsylvania : on the legislation of the United States upon the subject of slavery in the territories : delivered in the House of Representatives, March 5, 1856
6 images. Auto off bridge -- Long Beach, June 9, 1951. Auto plunged thirty feet to ground -- 23rd and California Streets.; More descriptive information with originals.
10 images. School vanadalism, 17 February 1953. Detective D.G. Watson; Detective Sergeant Stewart Jones; Father Thomas J. Sullivan; Patricia Murphy; Mrs. Louis Woehlcke; Mrs. Helen Vaughan.; Caption s
