Wedding cake float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Wedding cake float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

January 1, 1927

Date

1927-01-01

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Three-layer wedding cake float on a gondola-like boat with boy gondolier and girl riding in the boat and topped with boy and girl, Harold Van Horn and Ardath Aline Elsasser, dressed as a bride and groom beneath an archway. Inscribed in flowers on the side of the boat: Davis.... The float was entered by the Davis Perfection Bakery.
1927 was the first year the the Tournament of Roses Parade had a theme, "Songs in Flowers," with each float typifying a song

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Pasadena Rose Tourney, year 1927; 2081 2082, 2083, 2084, 2085, 2086, 2087, 2088, 2089, 2090, 2091, 2092
Handwritten on edge of nitrate negative: 2092

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Tournament of Roses
Van Horn, Harold
Elsasser, Ardath Aline

Location

California--Pasadena

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena