Alma Richards engaged in a discus throw, circa 1912-1920
Item Overview
- Title
- Alma Richards engaged in a discus throw, circa 1912-1920
- Date Created
- [circa 1912-1920]
- Date
- 1912/1920
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Alma Richards engaged in a discus throw. A man in a suit walking on a track and a grandstand are visible behind him.
Alma Richards was the high jump gold medalist in the 1912 Olympics. During his student years at Brigham Young University, Cornell University, Stanford University and the University of Southern California (where he ultimately earned a law degree), he continued to compete in track athletics, becoming a decathlete as well. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: Alma Richards
Text from negative sleeve: Richards, Alma. Track.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Richards, Alma, 1890-1963
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Track and field athletes--United States
Discus throwing--United States
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11343
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9c8s
- Manifest url
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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 .