German track star Otto Peltzer practices starts at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1928

Item Overview

Title

German track star Otto Peltzer practices starts at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 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 start Otto Peltzer practices starts on the track of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
A different photograph of Otto Peltzer taken on the same occasion appears with the photo caption, "Coming and Going; two views of the famous German half-miler. Dr. Otto Von Peltzer, who holds the world's record for the distance and has defeated Edvin Wide and Paavo Nurmi over the 1500-meter route.," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 1928: pg. B1.
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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Von Pelzter, Otto Dr., 1928
Handwritten on negative: Dr. Otto von - Peltzer

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

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

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.014036

Latitude

-118.287199

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Track athletics--California--Los Angeles