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.
The backs of spectators' heads line the bottom edge. Ahead of them, the track sits below camera-level as it stretches across the image. Three piles of hurdles sit on the field alongside the track. The field stretches across the mid-ground. Athletes and meet officials dot the near side of the field. On the far side of the field, several runners race at center, traveling to the left. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's stands stretch across the background.
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 5, 1926, Seniors Perform Ivy Day Rites, Class Inaugurates Fund, Seniors Make Gift Toward U.S.C. Union Building; Girls Receive Tokens
Gathering of graduates and audience, some seated on ground, some on chairs, around a speaker in academic dress under a tree, with building in right background
This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, June 5, 1926, Seniors Perform Ivy Day Rites, Class Inaugurates Fund, Seniors Make Gift Toward U.S.C. Union Building; Girls Receive Tokens
Patricia Reilly Hitt served as national co-chairwoman of Richard M. Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign and became his assistant secretary of health, education and welfare.
Woman graduate, in cap and gown, holding University of Southern California diploma, standing with older man in jacket, vest, and tie, holding hat, with decoratives trees, other graduates, and audience in background
Line of graduating students, in caps and gowns, marching across Coliseum field, led by faculty, with decorated pavilion in left foreground, orchestra in white in right foreground, peristyle in background
Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1931, Trojan Events Today Doubled, Doheny Memorial Precedes Graduation, Coliseum to See Conferring of 1330 Diplomas, Ground-Breaking to Initiate Commemorative Library