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

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Title: "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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The "Fairyland" float featuring a large 16 foot basket of roses in a garden with mushrooms and inhabited by four fairies and four elves. The float is seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. A radio broadcaster platform covered in greenery is visible on the right.
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_3613
ark:/21198/zz002cp7zg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Events
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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