Katherine Burroughs completing the high jump, Los Angeles, 1921

Item Overview

Title

Katherine Burroughs completing the high jump, Los Angeles, 1921

Date Created

May 28, 1921

Date

1921-05-28

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

*No stamped date is given, date from the newspaper article is used.
Katherine lost the wager of a box of chocolate-coated marshmallows by not equaling her own world record in the jump.
Photograph appears with the article, "Shiny Nose Costs Record." Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1921: II1.
Katherine's feet are slightly blurry as her legs are bent on opposite sides of the bar as she is shown mid-jump.

Caption

Handwritten on negative: 8 8
Text from negative sleeve: Track - UCLA women meet
Text from newspaper caption: Violet Ball Wins Hurdle Race (below) and Katherine Burroughs, High Jumper. Miss Ball, who is shown on the left, negotiated the 60 yards over timber obstructions in 9^238 Zoe Emerson, at Miss Ball's left, was second, and Fanny Burt, on the right, was third. Miss Burroughs set a mark of 4ft. 7in. in the high jump, which is somewhat below her own record.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Burroughs, Katherine

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Jumping--California--Los Angeles
Track athletics--California--Los Angeles