Image / "Merry Wives" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1938

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Title: "Merry Wives" 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"
North Hollywood float in the 1938 Tournament of Roses Parade titled, "Merry Wives." The float featured two of the merry wives from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and Sir Falstaff being dumped from a basket of linen in an English garden
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses - Floats 1938
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Tournament of Roses - 1938 - Floats
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gqz2
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Lifestyle
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Tournament of Roses
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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