Track athlete poses during the Pacific Fleet championship track meet, Long Beach, 1922
Item Overview
- Title
- Track athlete poses during the Pacific Fleet championship track meet, Long Beach, 1922
- Date Created
- [circa May 12, 1922]
- Date
- 1922-05-12
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Handwritten on note (see Item Ark: 21198/zz002cpjdj) in negative sleeve: Fleet tract [sic] me[...] Long Beach May 12 1922
Photographs of athletes participating track and field events at the same meet are captioned, "Exciting Moments in the Pacific Fleet Cinder Championships Sailor Flynn, shown above, collected a flock of points yesterday afternoon at Long Beach High for the Pacific Fleet Air Force in the broad jump. Palmer and Waldrop, both of the U.S.S. New York, are observed in the lower picture helping each other bust the tape at the finish of the 220. Spies[?] of the U.S.S. California is seen bounding in a close third," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "CALIFORNIA'S ATHLETES CAPTURE THE FLEET TRACK AND FIELD TITLE: FLEET AIR FORCE IS SECOND IN CLOSE MEET; Native Sons Roll Up 38 Points as Aviators Are Collecting 36; Mississippi is Third Sea Dogs in Violent Action," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1
An athlete participating in the Pacific Fleet's championship track meet poses on the track at Long Beach High School. He stands at center and faces camera, donning his team's uniform. He wears a dark tank and white shorts. A light-colored, wide horizontal stripe stretches across the tank. A sailor and a few spectators are visible in the background at left.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs - Names
- United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet
- Location
- Long Beach (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Track athletics--California--Long Beach
Track and field athletes--California--Long Beach
Military personnel--American--California--Long Beach
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3854
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpj8g
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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