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Title: Didrikson wins the 80-meter hurdles
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
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, 1899-1989.
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson competed in three events -- winning the javelin and hurdles, with a second in the high jump. Here, the 18-year old wins the 80-meter hurdles, setting the world record in 11.7 seconds in a near-dead heat with Evelyne Hall (far right).
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049032
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Sports-Olympic Games-1932.; A-000-814 4x5
CARL0000052776
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102593
Subject: Zaharias, Babe Didrikson,--1911-1956
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olympic Games--(10th :--1932 :--Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olympic athletes--United States
Athletes--United States
Tracks (Athletics)--California--Los Angeles
Hurdling (Track and field)--California--Los Angeles
Track and field for women--California--Los Angeles
Stadiums--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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