Floats on Parade!

Floats on Parade!

Holidays on Display

Mardi Gras Pageant floats, Canal Street, New Orleans, 1904

King Petroleum float, International Petroleum Exposition Parade, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1923

Chair caners’ float, Medfield, Massachusetts, about 1900

Pasadena Board of Trade float by Isabella Coleman, Tournament of Roses, about 1913

Santa Claus float by Tony Sarg, Macy’s Christmas Parade, 1924, courtesy New York Times

Cinderella’s coach by Norman Bel Geddes, Macy’s Christmas Parade, New York, 1926

Biplane, crane and clowns by Norman Bel Geddes, Macy’s Christmas Parade, New York, 1926

"Frozen Fairyland" ice-skating float by Matt Offen, Tournament of Roses, 1951, courtesy Valley Decorating Co.