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

Description:: Bust portrait of Will Rogers, signed "H. Goode" by the artist Henry B. Goode.
Date:: [circa 1930-1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Pan Amercian Airways airplane carrying the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post entering the Pacific Automotive Corp hangar at Union Air Terminal. A film crew, photographer, policemen and others watch.
Date:: August 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Pan American Airways airplane carrying the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post entering the Pacific Automotive Corp hangar at Union Air Terminal. A photographer, policemen and others watch.
Date:: August 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Red Cross workers in front of a tent ready to provide first aid to mourners during the funeral of Will Rogers at Forest Lawn. The tent is located outside the the entrance gate at 1712 S. Glendale Ave.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably related to the article, "Humorist Proposed First Beverly Hills Church," Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 1935: 4.
Date:: August 16, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mourners standing behind a chain lnk fence attending the arrival of the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post at the Pacific Automotive Corp hangar of Union Air Terminal
Date:: August 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Laguna Beach's entry float of flowers arranged into image of humorist Will Rogers, to commemorate his 1935 death.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
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:: 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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