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Title: Cake float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1930
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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
Float representing a cake with nine candles occupied by girls wearing flame caps. The candle girls are Marine Eubanks, Willa Mae Roberts, Evelyn Mowray, Vera Wickers, Sheda McBreton, Muriel Larsen, Emma Griffith, Iris March and Maxine Barrett. The float was entered by the city of Monrovia. The float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd. [
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3461
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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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