1950 Rose Parade float
1950 January
- Title
- 1950 Rose Parade float
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Campus and Student Life
- Sub-Series
- Buildings and Campus
- Identifier
- 30.22-9
- Dates
- 1950 January
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- Palomar Observatory was the subject of the Caltech float in the 1950 Rose Parade. Planned by noted industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss and built by students, the chrysanthemum-covered float had a telescope with an eight-foot-long tube mounted on a turntable with a diameter of nine feet. Historical photographs--Pasadena.