Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
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."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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