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Title
Sea Scouts and officer aboard Pinta with map, 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)
Sea Scouts Don Crews, Larry Harrod, Ralph Tingenberg, Jack McRoberts, Bill Boyd, and Bob Volse, gathered around Mate Bud Weber, all in uniform, studying map on deck of Pinta, with ocean and shoreline with trees and buildings in background
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 12198 4/21/38 Sea Scouts (opens[?])
Text from newspaper caption: PLOTTING THE COURSE. Left to right: Don Crews, Larry Harrod, Ralph Tingenberg, Jack McRoberts, Mate Bud Weber, Bill Boyd and Bob Volse.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0310
uclamss_1429_0310
ark:/21198/zz002d9jt7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Youth
Environment
Transportation
Balboa (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Navigation
Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
Volse, Bob, b. ca. 1920
McRoberts, Jack D., 1923-1999
Harrod, Lawrence Lee, 1920-1981
Boyd, Bill, b. ca. 1920
Tingenberg, Ralph, b. ca. 1920
Crews, Don, b. ca. 1920
Pinta (Sea Scout Ship)
Weber, Bud
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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