Genre: Portrait photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Subject: Sports - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige seated next to bleachers. The location may be Thomas Jefferson High School at Hopner and 41st St.
Date:: [circa 1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: George Godfrey, "The Leiperville Shadow," was the ring name of Feab Smith Williams, a heavyweight boxer from the state of Alabama who fought from 1919-1937. Godfrey twice won the World Colored Heavyweight Championship. In 2003, Godfrey was named to the Ring Magazine's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection