Subject: Culture / Genre: news photographs / Names: Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Laguna Beach's entry float of flowers arranged into image of humorist Will Rogers, to commemorate his 1935 death, at staging area on S. Orange Grove Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A similar photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, 8/23/1935, with the caption: "World Pays Solemn Homage to Will Rogers in Final Rites at Forest Lawn; Thousands, in silent reverence, filed past the bier where Will Rogers lay beneath a flag of flowers to pay him final honor."
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A column of mourners lined up behind a rope guideline to pay tribute to Will Rogers at the entrance to Forest Lawn with the duck pond, heron fountain and Red Cross first aid tent in the background on the right.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Will Rogers, in the course of assisting with arrangements after the death of Florenz Ziegfeld, leaves the Pierce Brothers Mortuary at 720 W. Washington Blvd. as a chauffeur opens a limousine door for him.
Date:: July 24 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the large wooden cross at the south end of Olvera Street, on a stepped circular, river stone base, bearing a floral wreath and sign in memory of Will Rogers and a large candle. The sign reads: "Will Rogers / Los Mexicanes De La Calle Olvera Lamentan In Muerta." A woman in Spanish dress a black veil over head kneels before the cross.
Date:: September 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A column of mourners lined up to pay their respects to Will Rogers at the ornate iron front gate of Forest Lawn (at 1712 S. Glendale Ave.).
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Description accompanying negative: Scene of the memorial services for Will Rogers held at the departed star's own studio, 20th Century-Fox, at whose Movietone City plant in Westwood Hills 2,500 of the star's co-workers gathered in the open air to pay their final tribute. Stars, directors, executives and laborers joined in common grief as George Jessel, famed star of sage and screen, Jason Joy, studio executive, and the Reverend Josiah Hopkins eulogized the nation's idol [ark no. 21198/zz002d96wf ].
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Edward E. Spence, Beverly Hills mayor, and Norman H. Pabst fly the flag at half mast at City Hall as a gesture of reverence upon news of the August 15th death of Will Rogers. All businesses in the city closed at 1:00 pm as well
Date:: August 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Funeral of Will Rogers at Forest Lawn with an honor guard of 8 enlisted men from the Seventeenth Attack Group, of General Headquarters, First Wing, March Field, attending the casket, which is draped with a floral American flag. The guard was changed every half hour. A column of mourners behind a rope barrier passes the casket.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A similar photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, 8/23/1935, with the caption: "World Pays Solemn Homage to Will Rogers in Final Rites at Forest Lawn; As dawn broke thousands had gathered to do homage. Scene shows a long line of mourners assembled at 5:30."
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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