Pole vaulter Ralph Smith, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description: Pole vaulter Ralph Smith vaulting, just above the bar, with 2 judges in foreground, other vaulters, empty stands, and Los Angeles Coliseum peristyle in background
Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 11, 1928, Track Athletes Bear Down in Final Week of Practice Before Olympic Tryouts … Ralph Smith’s vault of 13 ft. 5 in. stamps that young man as a chap to keep track of in competition …
Caption: At upper left corner of negative: 4
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Smith, Ralph, track

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Sports
People
Vaulting--California--Los Angeles
Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Smith, Ralph C., 1906-1998
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.01384966394080
Latitude: -118.28779935836800
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: 2949
uclamss_1429_2949
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cm42p
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