Female wrestlers Clara Mortensen and Mrs. Dick Rutherford squaring off in the ring, Los Angeles, 1937

Item Overview

Title
Female wrestlers Clara Mortensen and Mrs. Dick Rutherford squaring off in the ring, Los Angeles, 1937
Date Created
[circa June 13, 1937]
Date
1937-06-13
Publisher
Los Angeles Daily News
Language
No linguistic content
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
Description
Female wrestlers Clara Mortensen and Mrs. Dick Rutherford battling in the ring. Thousands of fans flocked to the Olympic Auditorium to watch the wrestling antics.
Caption
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Wrestling - Dr. Len Hall vs. Dean Detton; Clara Mortenseon vs. Betty Lee; Dean Detton vs. Vincent Lopez; Mrs. Dick Rutherford vs. Clara Mortensen.

Physical Description

Extent
1 photograph
Medium
b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre
news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names
Mortensen, Clara, 1916
Olympic Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type
still image
Subjects
People
Entertainment
Wrestling--California--Los Angeles
Sports

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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