"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
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."
Close-up 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. The float is guarded by out-walkers costumed as Nubian servants. Winner of sweepstakes award at parade.
The building behind the float located at 337 W. Colorado Blvd. is still there (as of 2014).
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4304, 1936 Rose Parade, 1-1-36, [stamped:] Jan 3 1936.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Names: De Golia, Robert
Bellerue, Mary Bernice, b. 1918
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.145694
Latitude: -118.157477
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_13395
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hnkkt
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Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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