"Little Miss Muffet" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Item Overview

Title

"Little Miss Muffet" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Date Created

January 2, 1933

Date

1933-01-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
"Little Miss Muffet" float in the form of garden on a boat with Miss Muffet (Charline Belt) and five attendants seated beneath a shell canopy (four visible: Wynn Wakeman, Geraldine Wakeman, Dorothy Waterhouse, Harriet Force and Dorothy Maynard). The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of San Marino.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Belt, Charline
Tournament of Roses
Wakeman, Geraldine
Force, Harriet
Waterhouse, Dorothy
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Wakeman, Wynn
Maynard, Dorothy

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.145535020534700

Latitude

-118.16059827804600

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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