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Title: "Firebird" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1935
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.
Spectators next to the float of the Rose Parade Queen, Muriel Cowan, featuring a large Russian Firebird composed of yellow chrysanthemums and lavender sweet peas at the front and three Russian mosques with domes covered in yellow pompoms at the back, behind the queen's throne. The float was photographed on Orange Grove Blvd., probably before the start of the parade.
The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3676
ark:/21198/zz002cpb4h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Entertainment
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Events
Tournament of Roses
Cowan, Muriel
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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