William "Moose" Irwin, Los Angeles, 1930-1935
Item Overview
- Title
- William "Moose" Irwin, Los Angeles, 1930-1935
- Date Created
- [between 1930-1935]
- Date
- 1930/1935
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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William "Moose" Irwin in a boxing pose on a battleship possibly.
William Fletcher "Moose" Irwin or "Bill Irwin" joined the Navy at the age of 16 in 1929. He served on the U.S.S Chicago from 1929-1935. He was the fleet heavy weight boxing champ in the early 1930's. He left in 1935 to box professionally, probably in Los Angeles. He was part of the heavyweight division. - Caption
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Text from negative sleeve: Irwin, William (Moose) Boxer.
Handwritten on negative: William (Moose) Irwin
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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United States. Navy
Irwin, William Fletcher, 1913-1989 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Battleships--American--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9772
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhwtr
- 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.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .