Image / "Mexico's Fairyland" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

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Title: "Mexico's Fairyland" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: January 2, 1933
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2035
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
"Mexico's Fairyland" float with a band of 6 musicians (4 men and 12 women) and a woman dancer (seated in the center front row) perform on the float in front of a Mexican style tower. On the side of the float is a flora sign reading: Agua Caliente / Old Mexico.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3288
ark:/21198/zz002cnnzt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Entertainment
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Events
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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