"Seeing Nellie Home," Sierra Madre float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939
Item Overview
- Title
- "Seeing Nellie Home," Sierra Madre float in 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
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The 1939 Tournament of Roses theme was Golden Jubilee to mark the 50th anniversary of the parade. Shirley Temple served as Grand Marshal.
Sierra Madre's Rose Parade entry was called "Seeing Nellie Home." It featured a replica of a buggy shipped to E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin in 1886. Daphne Alley and Leslie B. Wynne Jr. rode in the buggy while Kathleen McLellan and Anna Sue Adwell rode in the back.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Romance and Fantasy Feature Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 3, 12.
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_14710
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j8bs1
- 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 .