Burbank float at Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, 1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Burbank float at Tournament of Roses, 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
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Burbank’s Rose Parade float was made of roses, lavender, and chrysanthemums and featured a stagecoach with driver and women holding parasols sitting on top.
The 1939 Tournament of Roses theme was Golden Jubilee to mark the 50th anniversary of the parade. Shirley Temple served as Grand Marshal.
Four horses made of flowers lead a stagecoach and across the front of the float “TALLY HO 1889” is spelled out in flowers. Atop the float are Leo Burt, Elmer Forsyth, Al Cooper, Pearl Ramgren, Marguerite Harp, and Nancy Hungate.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Tournament of Roses
- Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14709
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j8brh
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .