Lillian Copeland crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924-1932

Item Overview
- Title
- Lillian Copeland crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924-1932
- Date Created
- [circa 1924-1932]
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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View of Lillian Copeland (center) and 2 other athletes crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum. Hurdles and the Coliseum grand stands ate in the background.
Lillian Copeland was an American athlete, who excelled in weight throwing. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S. history," and held multiple titles in shot put and javelin throwing as well. In the 1928 Olympics she won the silver medal for the discus throw and in 1932 she won the gold medal in this event. - Caption
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A note with the negative may possibly describe the event in the photograph: Lillian Copeland of the Pasadena Athletic & Country Club winning [illegible] place in 50 yard dash for women time 6.5/10 sec.
Text from negative sleeve: Copeland, Lillian. Track
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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People
Sports
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Women athletes--California--Los Angeles - Names
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Copeland, Lillian, 1904-1964 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.014028
- Latitude
- -118.287992
- Resource type
- still image
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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_1730
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dckmh
- Manifest url
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- Rights statement
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- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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- 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 .