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Winners of contest sponsored by Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (flew over pole via SAS), 1956
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Winners of contest sponsored by Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (flew over pole via SAS), 1956
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1 image. Winners of contest sponsored by Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (flew over pole via SAS), 19 July 1956. John Brownridge; Joan Dickinson; Susan Williams; Peter Holliday.; Supplementary material reads: "For immediate release. July 19, 1956. Shown as they got their first glimpse of Southern California are four school children just arrived from a quick hop over the Pole, via SAS, Scandinavian Airlines System, to be guests of Roy Rogers for a week. Winners of a contest sponsored by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, the children are (L to R) John Brownridge, Joan Dickinson, Susan Williams and Peter Holliday. They bested teams from all over the British Isles, and were chosen to represent their school, Tadcaster Grammar of Wetherby, Yorkshire. Thanks to Roy and Dale Rogers, as their guests, they will tour Southern Califonria, taking in the sights at Disneyland, Marineland, Catalina, visiting Hollywood Bowl to hear Liberace, and watching a Roy Rogers TV movie being made at Corriganville."
Asset Metadata
Title
Winners of contest sponsored by Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (flew over pole via SAS), 1956
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Temporal Subject
1956-07-19
Type
images
Format
1 photograph: negatives, 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
1956-07-19
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-m20415
Identifier
EXM-N-11904-008~1 (
filename
), examiner-m1663 (
legacy collection record id
), examiner-c44-95575 (
legacy record id
), examiner-m20415 (
legacy record id
), 11904-008 (
sleeve number
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
95575
Unique identifier
UC11721701
Legacy Identifier
EXM-N-11904-008~1.tif
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
29.9 in × 24.3 in at 300dpi
76.1 cm × 61.9 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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Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
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