Resource Type: still image / Names: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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

Description:: USC head football coach Howard Jones, instructing his team at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Date:: [between 1925-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Another photograph of a play in the same football game appears with the article, "TROJANS DOWN UTAH IN GRID OPENER, 35 TO 0: Battling Utes Hold Foes to Lone Touchdown in First Half but Fall as Game Progresses," Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 1932: E1
Date:: [circa September 24, 1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
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:: Reported in the article, "Trojans Picked To Defeat Olympic Club Track Team Here Tomorrow Afternoon," 16 Mar. 1928: B1.
Date:: March 17, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
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:: Elmer Boyden, University of California at Berkeley track team member, running over the finish line with his hands up at the Coliseum. Behind him on the right is Percy Niersbach, University of Southern California track team member. Track officials watch from the sides of the track. Photo appears with the article, "Long String of Bruin Victories is Broke," Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 1926: A1.
Date:: 20 March 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Anderson, H.C.
Watson, George
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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