Shirley Temple, Grand Marshall, rides her float on a throne of roses at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939

Item Overview

Title

Shirley Temple, Grand Marshall, rides her float on a throne of roses at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939

Date Created

January 2, 1939

Date

1939-01-02

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The theme for the 1939 Rose Parade was "Golden Memories."
Photograph appears with the article, "Rose Parade Awes 1,250,000," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 1, 13.
Dressed in a matching white outfit, Shirley Temple waves with a smile on her face, sitting on a large mound of flowers.
The Tournament of the Roses, the Crown City's New Year's gift since 1888, was reportedly successful with an estimated crowd of attendance of over a million. Grand marshal Shirley Temple rode atop a float of gardenias and blew kisses to the crowd.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Grand marshal of the tournament, Shirley Temple, made a spot of ermine white in a bed of roses on her float.
Text from negative sleeve: 15283 Rose Parade 1939 3

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Tournament of Roses
Temple, Shirley, 1928-

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Flowers--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena