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Title: Boxers in boxing ring on the beach, Santa Monica Athletic Club
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a crowd sitting amid beach umbrellas watching two pugilists boxing in an outdoor boxing ring on the beach in front of the Santa Monica Athletic Club in Santa Monica, California. The crane and flat-bottom barge at the end of the pier that was used to build the breakwater in 1934 can be seen at upper left.
Title devised by cataloger based on note from envelope the negative was received in: "Santa Monica A.C. Boxing." Date devised by cataloger based on year the breakwater was constructed. The Los Angeles Athletic Club purchased a building at 1441 Palisades Beach Road (the North Beach Bath House) and transformed it into the Santa Monica Athletic Club in 1922.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489578
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18409
Subject: Santa Monica Athletic Club (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Athletics
Boxers (Sports)
Boxing matches
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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