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Title: "Dreams of Pasadena" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1931
1931
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.
"Dreams of Pasadena" float with a butterfly on top of stacked circular floral stages in front of the Tournament of Roses queen, Mary Lou Waddell, seated on a throne and with smaller butterflies on the sides of the float. Ropes of pink sweetpeas extend to 4 outwalkers. The float was entered by the Tournament of Roses and is seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. with the Goodhue Flagpole in the background.
The theme of the 1931 forty-second annual Rose Parade was "Dreams in Flowers"
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1931
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3512
ark:/21198/zz002cp4bq
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Waddell, Mary Lou
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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