Image / "Martha" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

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Title: "Martha" 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.
The float inspired by the opera "Martha," adapted from the Flotow ballet, features the characters Lionel and Martha in garden in front of a farmhouse. The float was entered by Los Angeles County.
The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3687
ark:/21198/zz002cpbh6
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Transportation
Entertainment
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Flotow, Friedrich von, 1812-1883. Martha
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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