Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in a pike position during the flight of a dive, 1932
Item Overview
- Title
- Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in a pike position during the flight of a dive, 1932
- Date Created
- 1932
- Date
- 1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
- Dorothy Poynton-Hill was an American diver who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she won the silver medal in the 3 metre springboard competition. Four years later she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform event.In 1936 she won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the bronze medal in the 3 metre springboard event.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Poynton, Dorothy, swimmer, 1932
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Poynton-Hill, Dorothy, 1915-1995
- Latitude
- Dorothy Poynton, Olympic diver, in a pike position during the flight of a dive
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
People
Sports
Divers--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_7239
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cxm72
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .