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 building behind the float located at 337 W. Colorado Blvd. is still there (as of 2014). Close-up view of South Pasadena's float at 1936 Tournament of Roses Parade which depicts the court of Louis XVI (Robert de Golia) and Marie Antoinette (Mary Bellerue) in a garden at Versailles. The float is guarded by out-walkers costumed as Nubian servants. Winner of sweepstakes award at parade. The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers." Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13395 ark:/21198/zz002hnkkt
Subject
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena Bellerue, Mary Bernice, b. 1918 Tournament of Roses De Golia, Robert
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