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Wrestlers Martinez and Sanandos in a leg lock during their match, Los Angeles

Description:: Wrestlers (Ignatio?) Martinez and Jimmy Sanandos in a leg-lock during their wrestling match.
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Champion tennis player Don Budge on the court, Los Angeles

Description:: Champion tennis player Don Budge on the court. Budge was number one in the world for five years, he is still considered one of the best all time players
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

E. Manchester Boddy awards football trophy to Oliver Anderson at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: E. Manchester Boddy, an American newspaper publisher for the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, awards Oliver Anderson with a football trophy at a stadium.
Date:: 1930s?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Race car drivers, Earl Cooper and Barney Oldfield with their wives on deck of ship, circa 1926

Description:: Handwriting on negative states "L to R Earl & Mrs Cooper Mr. & Mrs Barney Oldfield" This is Oldfield's second wife, Hulda Rae Braden. The name of Cooper's wife is unknown.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Football player Red Grange and 3 other men, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Related to the article “Red Grange and George Wilson Collide Today, All-American Stars in Great Coliseum Game, Expect More Than 75,000 Fans to Watch Athletes in Action; Bears Doped to Win,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 1926: 9
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Mariechen M. Wehselau, future Olympic Gold Medal swimmer, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:: Mariechen M. Wehselau (later Jackson) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and silver medal in the 100 m freestyle event.
Date:: May 17, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion, playing at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Lillian Copeland crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924-1932

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
OpenUCLA Collections

Football player Red Grange throwing football, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Harold "Red" Grange, in athletic clothing and shoes, throwing a football on Coliseum field, with empty seats in background
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Football player Red Grange and manager C.C. Pyle posing, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Harold "Red" Grange, in Chicago Bears sweatshirt and athletic shoes, and C.C. Pyle, in suit and tie, holding hat and cigarette, both on one knee on Coliseum field, looking toward each other, with empty seats in background and another man partially visible at right
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Diving Venus Annette Kellerman, Los Angeles, circa 1920

Description:: Portrait photograph of Annette Kellerman in a pose.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hesser, Edwin Bower
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, lifting an anvil [outside the KJH Radio studio, Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927

Description:: George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, wearing dress pants and a tie, lifting an anvil outside a brick building with a sign reading "KHJ" over the door. The location may be the KHJ radio studio and towers atop the Los Angeles Times building at 1st and Broadway.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion, playing at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Football player Earl Britton running, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Earl Britton, in athletic clothing and shoes, running on Coliseum field, with 4 other players and empty seats in background
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Boxers Young Stribling and Eddie Huffman fighting at Ascot Arena, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, October 11, 1925, Georgian Wins Easy Decision, Former Sea-Faring Fighter in Rally Too Late … In the sequestered expanse of Dick Donald’s Ascot arena Young Stribling, Georgia’s leading fistic citizen, yesterday decisively outpointed Eddie Huffman …
Date:: October 10, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lillian Copeland at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924-1932

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

Football player Red Grange, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Related to the article “Red Grange and George Wilson Collide Today, All-American Stars in Great Coliseum Game, Expect More Than 75,000 Fans to Watch Athletes in Action; Bears Doped to Win,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 1926: 9
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mariechen M. Wehselau, future Olympic Gold Medal winner, posing for a dive, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:: Mariechen M. Wehselau (later Jackson) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and silver medal in the 100 m freestyle event.
Date:: May 17, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion, playing at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Football player Red Grange and manager C.C. Pyle posing, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Harold "Red" Grange, in Chicago Bears sweatshirt and athletic shoes, and C.C. Pyle, in suit and tie, holding hat and cigarette, both on one knee on Coliseum field, with empty seats in background and another man partially visible at right
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Football player Red Grange running, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Red Grange and George Wilson Collide Today, All-American Stars in Great Coliseum Game, Expect More Than 75,000 Fans to Watch Athletes in Action; Bears Doped to Win,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 1926: 9
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Football player Red Grange and manager C.C. Pyle posing, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Harold "Red" Grange, in Chicago Bears sweatshirt and athletic shoes, with C.C.Pyle, in suit, tie, and hat, holding cigarette, arm around Grange's shoulder, both standing on Coliseum field, with about 6 other men, some in athletic clothing, and empty seats in background
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, posing with anvil [outside the KJH Radio studio, Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927

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

Spectators watching golfers at the Wilshire Country Club, Los Angeles, circa 1927

Description:: Spectators watching golfers at the Wilshire Country Club with the back of the original club house (designed by architects Hunt and Brun) visible in the background (now a parking lot at the corner of Rossmore Ave. and Beverly Blvd.)
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Lee Barnes pole vaulting at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1924

Description:: Lee Stratford Barnes was an American athlete who competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris in the men's pole vault and won the gold medal.
Date:: 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion, playing at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (R), shaking hands with a competitor at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (R), shaking hands over the net with a competitor at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships. The grandstands are nearly empty.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Boxers Young Stribling and Eddie Huffman fighting at Ascot Arena, Los Angeles, 1925

Description:: Boxers Young Stribling and Eddie Huffman fighting at Ascot Arena, outdoors, photographed from edge of ring, ropes visible on three sides, fighters clinched, with first row of audience just visible beyond ring, trees in background
Date:: October 10, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Football player Red Grange, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:: Close-up of Harold "Red" Grange, in Chicago Bears sweatshirt
Date:: January 15, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, William Earl, 1896-1956
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Mariechen M. Wehselau, future Olympic Gold Medal swimmer, Los Angeles, 1924

Description:: Mariechen Wehselau, standing on the roof of a building wearing her swimsuit. Wehselau was in Los Angeles for exhibition swims en route to the Olympic tryouts in New York on June 7-8.
Date:: May 17, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

John Powers, Occidental College student, running track at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924

Description:: John Powers made the U.S.A. Olympic Trials in 1924 at 400 meters, was the Occidental College record holder in the 440 and was a member of the 1924 Championship Mile Relay at the Penn Relays. He graduated from Occidental College in 1924.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Henri Cochet, French tennis champion, playing at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Henri Jean Cochet was a champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from France who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Date:: October 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Austin Clapp, Olympic medalist, at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Austin Clapp swimming at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event. Clapp and several other athletes participated in the Plunge event en route to the senior national outdoor championships at Honolulu.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Austin Clapp, Olympic medalist, at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event, Los Angeles, 1928

Description:: Austin Clapp was an American swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won a gold medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay event and in 1932 he was a member of American water polo team, which won a bronze medal.
Date:: August 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer, [outside the KJH Radio studio, Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927

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

Pole vaulter Ralph Smith, Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, [1928?]

Description:: Possibly connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 11, 1928, Track Athletes Bear Down in Final Week of Practice Before Olympic Tryouts … Ralph Smith’s vault of 13 ft. 5 in. stamps that young man as a chap to keep track of in competition …
Date:: 1928?
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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