Image / "Little Miss Muffet" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

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Title: "Little Miss Muffet" 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) 825-2032
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
"Little Miss Muffet" float in the form of garden on a boat with Miss Muffet (Charline Belt) and five attendants seated beneath a shell canopy (four visible: Wynn Wakeman, Geraldine Wakeman, Dorothy Waterhouse, Harriet Force and Dorothy Maynard). The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of San Marino.
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3291
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Events
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Entertainment
Maynard, Dorothy
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Belt, Charline
Wakeman, Wynn
Wakeman, Geraldine
Tournament of Roses
Waterhouse, Dorothy
Force, Harriet
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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