Subject: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Sports spectators--California--Los Angeles / Genre: black-and-white photographs / Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Spectators watch the preparations for a track event at the Olympic Games. There are people on the field near the track. There are spectators scattered throughout the stands, including a man in a hat who is in the foreground of the photograph.
Date:: 1932-07-30/1932-08-14
[July 30-August 14, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Spectators at the Olympic Games. People wearing hats are visible in the foreground. The track is below and there are people standing by the track.
Date:: [July 30-August 14, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: The Summer Olympic Games took place in Los Angeles in 1932, not 1934 as the negative sleeve states.
Date:: [July 30-August 14, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum watches the Olympic Games. There is a man in a hat and sunglasses in the foreground. There are Olympic flags and American flags in the background, as well as banners for previous Olympic Games. The surrounding area is visible at the right of the photograph, including trees and neighboring buildings. There is a vertical sculpture at the top of one of the columns that makes up the outer edge of the Coliseum.
Date:: [July 30-August 14, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Opening Ceremony of the 1932 Summer Olympic Games. Athletes walk into the stadium, some wearing suits. In the foreground, there is the edge of a parasol. Spectators wearing hats are also in the foreground, and a huge number of spectators fill the stadium in the distance.
Date:: [July 30, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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