Genre: news photographs / Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Chuck Eaton (left), of Pomona College, and Johnny Myrra, of the Olympic Club Track Team, stand arm in arm at the empty Coliseum during a practice session. Both athletes specialized in the javelin.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “Seen CLOSE to HOME,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Jun. 1926: H2.
Date:: June 13, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A U.S.C. Trojan is captured mid-air knocking over the bar during a high jump attempt. The landing pit sprawls along the bottom edge. Beyond it, left-of-center, the high jumper is on his descent. His chest faces the camera as he head angles down towards the ground at left and one of his legs stretches up to the right. The high jump bar falls from its support, mimicking the angle of the jumper. Beside the support post at left, a meet official watches the attempt. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's stands stretch across the background.
Date:: [circa February 20, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Webfoots football team of the University of Oregon was later named the Oregon Ducks.
Date:: October 17, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of Allison Saunders as the May Day Queen during the May Day celebration at the Coliseum. She stands on stage in the middle of four unidentified children and her maid of honor Billie Gygerson.
Date:: June 13, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A stage with a white tent is lit by stadium lights. The stage is set at an end of the arena field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Dozens of people in stylized costumes of ancient Arabia sit upon the stage and in front of the stage. Hundreds or possibly thousands of spectators can be seen sitting in the stadium. The photograph was taken at night. The Al Malaikah Shrine Temple of Los Angeles hosted a pageant, of which the theme was One Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights.
Date:: October 20, 1935
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

Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, “Troy Upsets Notre Dame by 13 to 0,” Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec 1938: 1.
Date:: December 3, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is very similar to another one of the First Continental Congress float that appears with photo page, "Pageant of Liberty Stirs Throng of 50,000 at the Coliseum," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1926: A12.
Date:: July 5, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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