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Title: "Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1935
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.
The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
The Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A fountain in the center supports 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3678
ark:/21198/zz002cpb6j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
Entertainment
Events
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Turner, Mary Lou
Tournament of Roses
Slaughter, Joan
Burley, Margaret
McCleary, Gladys
Johnson, Virginia
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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