Genre: glass plate negatives / Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Subject: Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lillian Copeland was an American athlete who excelled in weight throwing. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S. history," and held multiple titles in shot put and javelin throwing as well. In the 1928 Olympics she won the silver medal for the discus throw and in 1932 she won the gold medal in this event.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: 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

Description:: Lee Barnes lands his jump into the sand pit below him. The pole he used to vault himself over the crossbar is centered between the standard bars. A man in a hat, with back facing the camera, moves to grab Barnes' vaulting pole. Another man stands to the left of the standard bars, with the number "20" on his sweater, watching Barnes land. 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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