Boy Scout Troop 47 drinking hot chocolate after being marooned overnight in the Arroyo Seco Canyon, Los Angeles, December 9, 1946

Item Overview

Title

Boy Scout Troop 47 drinking hot chocolate after being marooned overnight in the Arroyo Seco Canyon, Los Angeles, December 9, 1946

Date Created

December 9, 1946

Date

1946-12-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Twenty-one Boy Scouts and three leaders from Troop 47 in Los Angeles drinking hot chocolate after being marooned overnight on a bluff 1000 feet above the canyon floor in the Upper Arroyo Seco Canyon. The scouts became lost on their way back during a seven mile hike between Switzer's Camp and Oake Wilde. The troop lit matches to signal a rescue party of parents, deputy sheriffs, and county prisoners. One of the leaders, David Swaim, suffered a minor heart attack two miles from camp so the scouts carried him the rest of the way on a stretcher.

Caption

Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Boy Scouts
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Boy Scouts - Troop 47 Geo. Washington Dist.; Lost in Mountains - near Switzerland Canyon - 1946

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Boy Scouts of America

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lifestyle
Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles
Lost persons--California--Los Angeles
Hiking--California--Los Angeles
Rescues--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Youth
Boys--California--Los Angeles