"Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- "Venus" 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
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The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
The Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails. The float was photographerd at the intersection of Orange Grove. Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1935
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Subjects
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Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Events - Names
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Slaughter, Joan
Turner, Mary Lou
Johnson, Virginia
McCleary, Gladys
Burley, Margaret
Tournament of Roses - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14584579687830
- Latitude
- -118.16090941429100
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_3717
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpcj6
- 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.