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

Item Overview

Title

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

Date Created

January 1, 1936

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

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 float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
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, 22

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

Culture
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena

Names

Lloyd, Mary Jean, b. 1918 or 19
Thompson, Jeanette, b. 1918
De Golia, Robert
Bellerue, Mary Bernice, b. 1918
Tournament of Roses

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.14549950316560

Latitude

-118.16019058227500

Resource type

still image