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Item
Title
D9587-31
Date(s)
- 1940-03-30 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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1940 Daffodil Parade, Brown & Haley Almond Roca float. Man and woman with three women dressed in costumes standing beside float. The float features the vacuum sealed tin of Almond Roca candy. This packaging innovation made it possible for the candy to go "to the four corners of the world." The Brown & Haley float won first place in the commercial division. (T. Times 3/30/1940, pg.1)
Parades & processions--Tacoma--1940-1950; Festivals--Tacoma; Floats (Parades)--Tacoma--1940-1950; Puyallup Valley Daffodil Festival (1940 :Tacoma);