Checker champion Leonard Leslie Hall and H. P. Kidwell play separate games, surrounded by other club members, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Checker champion Leonard Leslie Hall and H. P. Kidwell play separate games, surrounded by other club members, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

February 11, 1936

Date

1936-02-11

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Club members Hall and Kidwell focus on their separate games of checkers while they are watched by an unknown spectator.
At 810 West Sixth Street the Chess and Checker Club meets. The club has members from various backgrounds, some are cattlemen, some are novelists, and there are more than 200 members.
Photograph appears with the article, "Game That Makes Men Equal Flourishes Here," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3599 - L. L. Hall (state chess- checkers) H. P. Kidwell (L. A. Chess and Checker Club) 2/6/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Serious? You have to be solemn when you're State checker champion. With his hand poised on a king is L. L. Hall, California winner. H. P. Kidwell is at the right.
Handwritten on negative: H.P. Kidwell/L.L. Hall (State champ)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Kidwell, H. P.
Hall, Leonard Leslie, b. 1900

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.050336

Latitude

-118.257777

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Board games--California--Los Angeles
Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Checkers