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

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Title: "Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: January 2, 1933
1933-01-02
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.
Close-up view of the "Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade with the queen, Marjorie Wise, with Betty Service and Gene Beerkle, maids in waiting seated in a pagoda-like structure at the back. Outwalkers carrying bouquets of roses, dressed as peacocks and attached to the float with pink ribbons. The photograph was taken on Orange Grove Blvd. before the start of the Rose Parade.
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_3632
ark:/21198/zz002cp8ms
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
Entertainment
Events
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Sabotage--California
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Wise, Marjorie
Service, Betty
Beerkle, Gene
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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