"Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

Title: "Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Date: 1936-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Pre-parade 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 with a peacock at the front, and with 2 ladies in waiting (Jeanette Thompson and Mary Jean Lloyd). The float is guarded by out-walkers costumed as Nubian servants. Winner of sweepstakes award at parade.
The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses Parade
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 12584

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: De Golia, Robert
Lloyd, Mary Jean, b. 1918 or 19
Tournament of Roses
Bellerue, Mary Bernice, b. 1918
Thompson, Jeanette, b. 1918
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002553np
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Rights Country: US
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