"Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- "Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935
- Date Created
- January 1, 1935
- Date
- 1935-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails. The float is seen passing the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove. Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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McCleary, Gladys
Burley, Margaret
Tournament of Roses
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Johnson, Virginia
Turner, Mary Lou
Slaughter, Joan - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.1456238138924
- Latitude
- -118.1604266166690
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Arts
Entertainment
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3719
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpcm7
- 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
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .