Language: No linguistic content / Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Copeland, Lillian, 1904-1964 / Subject: Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of Lillian Copeland (center) and 2 other athletes crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum. Hurdles and the Coliseum grand stands ate in the background.
Date:: [circa 1924-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: Lillian Copeland at a track athletics event at the Coliseum in Los Angeles
Date:: [circa 1924-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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