Mary Pickford, Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade, in a flower-covered coach, Pasadena, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- Mary Pickford, Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade, in a flower-covered coach, Pasadena, 1933
- Date Created
- January 2, 1933
- Date
- 1933-01-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Mary Pickford, Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade, in a white satin gown, seated in a coach covered in stevia, roses, sweet peas and gladioli, with a coachman and a footman, drawn by four white horses. The harness of the horses was covered in pink satin ribbon. The photograph was taken in front of the Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) at the intersection of Colorado Blvd. and Orange Grove Blvd. Mary Pickford was the first woman and the first film industry professional to be a Grand Marshal of the parade.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Tournament of Roses
Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.) - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.14558829656050
- Latitude
- -118.16034078598000
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Culture
Arts
Entertainment
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3294
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cnp5d
- 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) 825-2029
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .