Collection on the Boy Scouts of America 1953 Jamboree in Irvine, 1953

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Collection on the Boy Scouts of America 1953 Jamboree in Irvine, 1953

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This collection comprises material documenting the first Boy Scouts of America jamboree ever to be held in California, which took place in 1953 at the Irvine Ranch near Santa Ana. The collection includes a photograph album, likely the property of Elbert Ostrander, documenting the jamboree and the journey of Troop 4 from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine; and the brochure . There is also a scrapbook of Troop 26, from Berkeley and Walnut Creek, California, containing mimeograph reports, rosters, photographs, maps, printed scouting ephemera, and newspaper clippings, and indicating camp layouts at the jamboree. All aboard! for the national jamboree, Irvine Ranch

0.2 linear feet; (1 box)

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University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6661119

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Online Archive of California

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National Scout Jamboree (1953 : Irvine Ranch, Calif.)

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Boy Scouts of America

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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers. The BSA was founded in 1910, and since then, more than 110 million Americans have been participants in BSA programs at some time. The BSA is part of the international Scout Movement and became a founding member organization of the World Or...