Image / "Queen of Fantasy" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1938

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Title: "Queen of Fantasy" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1938
1938-01-01
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.
The theme of the 49th Tourament of Roses Parade in 1938 was "Playland Fantasies"
Long Beach's "Queen of Fantasy" float in a stagnig area on S. Orange Grove Blvd. before the parade. This was the Theme prize winner and featured the queen on a canopied throne drawn by three giant butterflies. Five maidens walked alongside the float.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses; Floats: Sierra Madre, L.A. County, Market Basket, Australia, Long Beach, Queen's Float
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gqhb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Lifestyle
Butterflies--California
Tournament of Roses
Long Beach (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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