"Firebird" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Item Overview

Title

"Firebird" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Date Created

January 1, 1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
The float of the Rose Parade Queen, Muriel Cowan, features a large Russian Firebird composed of yellow chrysanthemums and lavender sweet peas at the front and three Russian mosques with domes covered in yellow pompoms at the back, behind the queen's throne. The queen is accompanied by six attendants (Dorothy Bruce, Emily Bettainer, Lynn Smith, Shirley Chamberlain, Catherine Butler and Lucille Spelts) and four outwalkers in gowns and veils are also visible, including Manon Harder in front on the left.
View down Colorado Blvd. facing west with the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection with Orange Grove Blvd. in the distance on the left.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

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

Names

Smith, Lynn
Spelts, Lucille
Bettainer, Emily
Bruce, Dorothy
Chamberlain, Shirley
Butler, Catherine
Tournament of Roses
Harder, Manon
Cowan, Muriel

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.145748124436300

Latitude

-118.15978288650500

Resource type

still image