Frank Kurtz, aviator and Olympic athlete, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Frank Kurtz, aviator and Olympic athlete, 1935
- Date Created
- November 29, 1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection
Notes
- Description
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Frank Allen Kurtz was an Olympic athlete and aviator in the United States Army Air Forces. He won the Bronze medal in 10 meter platform diving at the 1932 Olympics. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, 3 Silver Stars, 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Air Medals and 5 Presidential Citations.
Portrait photograph of aviator Frank Kurtz in a fur-lined leather jacket, shirt and tie. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Frank Kurtz aviator 11-29-35
Text from negative sleeve: 3005. Frank Kurtz. Aviator. 11-29-35. [Stamped:] Dec 3 1935.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs - Subjects
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Air pilots--American
Olympic athletes - Names
- Kurtz, Frank Allen, Jr., 1911-1996
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_10763
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9vk6
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.