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

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

Description:: Laguna Beach's entry of a float of flowers arranged into image of humorist Will Rogers, to commemorate his 1935 death, as seen by crowd at 1936 Tournament of Roses Parade
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: A column of mourners lined up behind a rope guideline to pay tribute to Will Rogers at the entrance to Forest Lawn. A sign on the left reads: "Information, General Offices, Mortuary."
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Actor Russell Simpson standing at a podium on an outdoor stage reading a poem by Edgar Guest in tribute to Will Rogers, recently deceased
Date:: August 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

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