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Title
"Firebird" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
January 1, 1935
1935-01-01
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 of the Rose Parade Queen, Muriel Cowan, features 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 queen is accompanied by six attendants (Dorothy Bruce, Emily Bettainer, Lynn Smith, Shirley Chamberlain, Catherine Butler and Lucille Spelts) and three outwalkers in gowns and veils are also visible. The float was photographed at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
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_3708
ark:/21198/zz002cpc7j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Sabotage--California
Spelts, Lucille
Bruce, Dorothy
Butler, Catherine
Smith, Lynn
Bettainer, Emily
Chamberlain, Shirley
Cowan, Muriel
Tournament of Roses
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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