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Title: Lilly Rodriguez
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1980
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Fighting was in Lilly Rodriguez's blood: her brother is kick-boxing legend Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. In the 1970s and 1980s, as more women began to lace up the gloves, Rodriguez led the way. The pioneer featherweight fought on the first all-woman card in California. Photo dated: February 20, 1980.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049076
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Boxing.
CARL0000052867
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17298
Subject: Rodriguez, Lilly
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Women boxers--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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