Otto Peltzer, German world record holder in the 880, relaxes at the Coliseum while training to race, Los Angeles, 1928

Item Overview

Title

Otto Peltzer, German world record holder in the 880, relaxes at the Coliseum while training to race, Los Angeles, 1928

Date Created

January 11, 1928

Date

1928-01-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

German track star Otto Peltzer works out at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum after gaining permission from the German sports federation to run in three races while visited the United States.
Peltzer, the world record holder at the 880 at the time, was particularly interested in running on the Coliseum track, which he praised as a fast track. Two months after this photograph was taken he ran against local racers and set a new Southern California record. . During World War II, Peltzer was imprisoned by the Germans because was gay.
This photograph (cropped) appears with the article, "Dr. Peltzer Given Permission to Run Here; Colliseum Likely to be Scene of First Showing," Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 1928: 11.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Von Pelzter, Otto Dr., 1928
Handwritten on negative: Dr. von - Peltzer
Text from newspaper caption: Behold Dr. Otto von Peltzer, the German star who holds the world record of 1m. 51 2-3s for the 880. He has been granted permission by the German Federation to participate in three races in this country. One of these will be in Los Angeles and Peltzer probably will have as opponents in the half mile Nick Carter, Hank Lunney and Percy Neirabach.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Peltzer, Otto, 1900-1970

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.014036

Latitude

-118.287199

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Track athletics--California--Los Angeles