Lillian Copeland crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924-1932
Item Overview
- Title
- Lillian Copeland crossing the finish line in a race at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1924-1932
- Date Created
- [circa 1924-1932]
- Date
- 1924/1932
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Notes
- Description
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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.
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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Copeland, Lillian, 1904-1964
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sports
Women athletes--California--Los Angeles
People
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1730
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dckmh
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- 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 .