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Title
Sea Scout Karl Cantner with rope on Pinta, Balboa peninsula (Newport Beach), 1937
Contributor
Spencer, E. J. (Elias James), 1868-1945
Date Created and/or Issued
1937
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, November 28, 1937, "A Day With the Sea Scouts. Sea Scouts of the Crescent Bay Council, Santa Monica, are shown on this page learning navigation and sea ways aboard their ship Pinta, which they reconstructed themselves from an old Navy whaleboat. They are among the 2000 Southland Sea Scouts who now are participating with their fellow Sea Scouts of California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona in the annual regional rendezvous at Balboa." (Times photos by E.J. Spencer)
Karl Cantner, in uniform, standing on deck of Pinta tying bowline knot in large rope, with life ring reading S.S.S. Pinta, Los Angeles, hanging on rail, with ocean, small boats, and shoreline with trees and buildings in background
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 12198 4/21/38 Sea Scouts (opens[?])
Text from newspaper caption: KARL CANTNER ties a bowline.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0309
uclamss_1429_0309
ark:/21198/zz002d9jsq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Balboa (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Transportation
Government
Knots & splices
Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
Pinta (Sea Scout Ship)
Cantner, Karl, b. ca. 1920
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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