Tag: Huntington Library

Chaucer, the Huntington, and the 2020 Rose Bowl Parade

by Candace Barrington

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1969 Rose Bowl Parade. Huntington Library Entry.

Fifty years after it’s 1969 appearance in the Rose Bowl Parade with a giant replica of the Ellesmere Chaucer, the Huntington Library marked its centennial with another flower-studded entry in Pasadena’s 2020 Tournament of Roses Parade. Again, the Ellesmere Chaucer was prominently featured.

 

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Artist’s rendering of The Huntington’s 2020 entry in the Rose Parade®, designed by Phoenix Decorating Company.

Though I have yet to find a photo of the finished float at the parade, here are three links to articles with images of the float in development: Sierra Madre Weekly, Pasadena Now, and a Princeton University newsletter.