Subject: Vaulting--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lee Barnes was a part of the track team at University of Southern California from 1924 to 1928. He won gold in pole vaulting at the Paris Olympics in 1924.
Date:: [between 1924-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Glenn Graham, pole vaulter, at the Colisuem. Glenn qualified to participate in the 1924 Olympic games at the June trials in Cambridge, MA, and won a silver medal in the mens' pole vault in Paris that summer.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographs of different events from the same track meet appear with the article, "TROJAN TRACK TEAM OVERWHELMS OXY, 107 TO 33: BUD HOUSER GRABS OFF TRIO OF FIRST PLACES U.S.C. Athletes Score Clean Sweep in Five Events; Les Heilman Breaks Trojan Record TROJAN TRACK OUTFIT WINS," Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 1926: A1
Date:: [circa February 20, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photographs taken at the same dual track meet appear with the articles, “How Trojans Tripped Stanford,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D3, and “Boys Outdo Themselves to Run Away with Meet Southern California Scores Easy 82 2-3 to 48 1-3 Win Over Rivals as Records Fall,” Los Angeles Times, 06 May 1934: D1
Date:: [circa May 5, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Lee Stratford Barnes was an American athlete who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in the men's pole vault and won the gold medal.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of Lincoln High School student Max Luna sailing over the bamboo bar during a pole vault. At this time Luna and cleared 11 ft. 6 in. (the current Mexican record was 11 ft. 4 in.).
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At center, Lee Barnes, a U.S.C. vaulter, is captured falling through the air after he crosses over the bar during a record-setting vault attempt. His body is angled towards camera and facing the ground. He stretches an arm over his head as he passes behind the bar. In front of him, the bar stands at center. On the ground, another athlete stands near the left edge and watches Barnes' jump. Another man stands with his back to camera at center. In the distance, the field stretches back towards the stadium's seats, which line the background.
Date:: [February 27, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bell, Robert H., b. 1889
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another photograph taken on the same occasion appears in a Los Angeles Times Article titled: "Three Local Boys Compete in Mexican Track Championships," 8/30/1933.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: At center, a Stanford vaulter is captured mid-air as he descends from his vault attempt and lands in the vaulting pit. He appears to right himself in the air with outstretched arms. The pit extends in front of him to the right. In the foreground at left, a meet official stands with his back to camera and looks up towards the vaulting bar. The bar sits high above and to the left of the vaulter at center. Beyond the vaulting event area, the field and stands at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum stretch across the background.
Date:: [circa May 5, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another photograph taken on the same occasion appears in a Los Angeles Times Article titled: "Three Local Boys Compete in Mexican Track Championships," 8/30/1933. [
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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