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Shirley Temple, Grand Marshall, rides her float on a throne of roses at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939

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Title: Shirley Temple, Grand Marshall, rides her float on a throne of roses at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 2, 1939
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Rose Parade Awes 1,250,000," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 1, 13.
The theme for the 1939 Rose Parade was "Golden Memories."
The Tournament of the Roses, the Crown City's New Year's gift since 1888, was reportedly successful with an estimated crowd of attendance of over a million. Grand marshal Shirley Temple rode atop a float of gardenias and blew kisses to the crowd.
Dressed in a matching white outfit, Shirley Temple waves with a smile on her face, sitting on a large mound of flowers.
Text from negative sleeve: 15283 Rose Parade 1939 3
Text from newspaper caption: Grand marshal of the tournament, Shirley Temple, made a spot of ermine white in a bed of roses on her float.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14711
ark:/21198/zz002j8btj
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Flowers--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Temple, Shirley, 1928-
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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