Scouts go to Catalina Island, 1954

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1 image. Scouts go to Catalina Island, 21 June 1952. 18 boy and explorer scouts go to Catalina islands for camping trip and to earn merit badges. Police officer Roy Van Wicklin accompanies them: he's scoutmaster.; Supplementary material reads: "News Bureau. United Air Lines. Bert Moore, MA 6-6311. Night: Stanley 7-4724. To Earn Merit Badges at Catalina Island: Eighteen Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts of Troop 150 (Los Angeles, 'Mt. Vernon District') left here today via United Air Lines for Santa Catalina Island and a 2-day hiking and camping expedition on which they will endeavor to earn merit badges. After arriving at the 1560-foot high airport they will hike ten miles to the Isthmus and camp there overnight. A boat trip around the island on Sunday will complete the expedition; they return tomorrow night. Left to right, first row: Jack Leib, Fred Henning, Don Ayres, John Corcoran, Richard Shepard, Robert Whittington, Tomokiro Hamasaki, Peter LeClair, and Joe Simpson. 2nd Row: Charles Crockett, Pat Paloutzian, Bob Paloutzian, Don Hamilton, Foster Easley, Saul Leyton, Lee Benson, Donald Gerber and Dennis Hale. At right on steps is Officer Roy Van Wicklin, LAPD (Wilshire Station), Scoutmaster of the group."

Asset Metadata

Title Scouts go to Catalina Island, 1954

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), islands: Santa Catalina Island (geographic subject), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1952-06-21

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1952-06-21

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m21100

Identifier EXM-N-9616-002~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-94795 (legacy record id), examiner-m21100 (legacy record id), 9616-002 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 94795

Unique identifier UC11718372

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-9616-002~1.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 30.2 in × 24.1 in at 300dpi
76.9 cm × 61.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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