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"Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1936
1936-01-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
View of South Pasadena's float at 1936 Tournament of Roses Parade which depicts the court of Louis XVI (Robert de Golia) and Marie Antoinette (Mary Bellerue) in a garden at Versailles with a peacock at the front, and with 2 ladies in waiting (Jeanette Thompson and Mary Jean Lloyd). The float is guarded by out-walkers costumed as Nubian servants. Winner of sweepstakes award at parade.. The float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 12584, 22
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses Parade
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025540b
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
De Golia, Robert
Lloyd, Mary Jean, b. 1918 or 19
Tournament of Roses
Bellerue, Mary Bernice, b. 1918
Thompson, Jeanette, b. 1918
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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