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

Title: "Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Date Created: January 1, 1936
Date: 1936-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Tournament of Roses
Bellerue, Mary Bernice, b. 1918
Thompson, Jeanette, b. 1918
Lloyd, Mary Jean, b. 1918 or 19
De Golia, Robert
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13391
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnkfr
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