Names: Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Portrait of engineer Tom Ward and pilot Joe Crosson in the Pacific Automotive Corp hangar at the Union Air Terminal after arriving in a plane transporting the bodies of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Crosson brought the bodies of Rogers and Post out of the wilds of Alaska to Seattle.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs 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 Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Float created as a tribute to Will Rogers shows a white horse, probably Soapsuds, with a lowered head and empty saddle, its reins trailing on the ground, on a raised platform. A radiant star is behind Soapsuds and a U. S. flag is draped on the platform in front of him. The float was entered by the Union Oil Company. It was photographed as it passed the Goodhue flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date Created:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs 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 Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Photograph of (L to R) Charles J. Griffin (president of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce), Tom Mix (actor, master of ceremonies), Dr. Rufus B. von Kleinsmid (president of the University of Southern California), and actors Will Rogers, and Fred Stone.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Will Rogers seated in a wagon (last on right) with a group of 6 women and 6 men.
Date Created:: 1900
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs 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 Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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 Created:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme for the forty-seventh Rose Parade was "History in Flowers"
Date Created:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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 Created:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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