"Aphrodite" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932
Item Overview
- Title
- "Aphrodite" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1932
- Date Created
- January 1, 1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Notes
- Description
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On the city of Monrovia float a woman dressed as the goddess Aphrodite holding the reins of a floral outboard motorboat driven by Loretta Trumbull, an outboard motor champion. Another young woman sits next to Aphrodite and ten outwalkers, young boys in costume, are also visible. The float is shown at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1932
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
-
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Events - Names
- Tournament of Roses
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14594346920720
- Latitude
- -118.16064119339000
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_3556
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cp5zh
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.