George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer with his brother [outside the KJH Radio studio?], [Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927
Item Overview
- Title
- George Godfrey, heavyweight boxer with his brother [outside the KJH Radio studio?], [Los Angeles(?)], circa 1926-1927
- Date Created
- [circa 1926-1927]
- Date
- 1926/1927
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Heavyweight boxer George Godfrey with his brother in a mock confrontation, both in crouching positions and with his brother holding up a beverage bottle by its neck, outside a brick building. Both wearing suits, hats and ties, and George's hat is a straw boater. Other photographs taken on this occasion show a sign reading "KHJ" over a doorway. The location may be the KHJ radio studio and towers atop the Los Angeles Times building at 1st and Broadway.
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Godfrey, George, 1897-1947
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.05331721151620
- Latitude
- -118.24559211731000
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sports
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Lifestyle
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4902
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cttnt
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .