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Title: Trades guitar for gloves
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
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: Photograph caption dated July 13, 1957 reads, "Charlie (Tombstone) Smith, California welterweight champion, will put down his guitar long enough to lace on the gloves for a 10-rounder with France's Marcel Pigou tonight at Hollywood Legion Stadium. Tombstone can really play the guitar as well as fight."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00052877
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d065_f19_i30
CARL0000058572
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41548
Subject: Boxers (Sports)
African American boxers
Guitar
Guitarists
Straw hats
Sandals
Men
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time Period: 1950-1959

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