Paavo Nurmi clears a hurdle at a Coliseum track event, Los Angeles, 1925

Title: Paavo Nurmi clears a hurdle at a Coliseum track event, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created: April 1925
Date: 1925-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Reported in “Nurmi thrill s 45,000 track fans; huge crowd sees Finn bust American record,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 1925: A1.
Paavo Nurmi (left) and another runner clear a hurdle during a race at the Coliseum. The stadium is filled with spectators.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Nurmi, Paavo
Handwritten on negative: Nurmi meet '25

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Nurmi, Paavo, 1897-1973
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.013681
Latitude: -118.288046
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_6728
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cx0m2
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Rights Country: US
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