Guide to the Collection on the Boy Scouts of America 1953 Jamboree in Irvine,
California MS.R.101
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Title: Collection on the Boy Scouts of America 1953 Jamboree in Irvine
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.101
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1953
Abstract: 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
All aboard! for the national jamboree, Irvine Ranch. 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.
Language of Material:
English .
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Preferred Citation
Collection on the Boy Scouts of America 1953 Jamboree in Irvine. MS-R101. Special
Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Acquired, 2002.
Processing Information
Processed by Andre Ambrus, 2003.
Historical Information About the Jamboree
The idea for a national gathering of Boy Scouts was the brainchild of Sir Robert
Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement in England, who also named the event
"jamboree." The first jamboree in the United States was held in 1937 while the first such
gathering in California was at the Irvine Ranch in 1953 in Santa Ana (today Irvine). The
event brought over 50,000 Boy Scouts to Southern California, not just from most of the U.S.
states, but also from foreign countries such as Mexico and Sweden.
More information on the Boy Scouts of America and the organization's jamborees can be found
at: http://scouting.org/ and http://scouting.org/ jamboree/history.html.
Scope and Content of Collection
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
All aboard! for the national jamboree, Irvine
Ranch
. 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.
Related Material
Related materials can be found in the Don Meadows Papers, MS-R001, (Subseries 5.1), Special
Collections and Archives.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Ephemera -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Scrapbooks -- California -- Orange County -- 20th
century
Photograph albums -- California -- Irvine -- 20th
century.
Online Archive of California
Boy Scouts of America -- Archives
National Scout Jamboree (1953 : Irvine Ranch, Calif.) --
Archives
box 1, folder 1
All aboard! for the national jamboree, Irvine Ranch
, brochure [MISSING]
1953
