Boy Scouts of America float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Boy Scouts of America float at 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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Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Romance and Fantasy Feature Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 3, 12.
Boy Scouts of America's parade float is seen in the front, followed by the University of Southern California float.
The "Golden Memories of Boyhood" float depicted an old-fashioned schoolhouse. 10-year-old Cub Scout David Levering sits in the back near the flag pole. At the front of the float are J. E. Orton, veteran San Gabriel Scout counselor, 18-year-old Gilbert Kinney, Sea Scout of Aurora Troop No. 10 in Pasadena, and 19-year-old Jim Willott, Eagle Scout of Troop No. 3 in Arcadia.
The 1939 Tournament of Roses theme was Golden Jubilee to mark the 50th anniversary of the parade. Shirley Temple served as Grand Marshal.
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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Orton, J. E.
Tournament of Roses
Kinney, Gilbert, (Gilbert Livingston), 1921-1941
Willott, Jim
Levering, David
Boy Scouts of America - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_14699
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002j8bdb
- 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 .