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Title: Lewis (Lew) Alcindor
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Messinger, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969
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
San Francisco had the "Age of Aquarius," Westwood enjoyed the "Age of Alcindor." In his three varsity seasons at UCLA, from 1967-1969, Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) led the Bruins to a 88-2 record and three consecutive national titles. Here, the school's only 7-foot-1 history major attends graduation. Photo dated: June 15, 1969.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048923
Herald Examiner Collection
HE-002-405 4x5; HE box 2600.
CARL0000053009
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17429
Subject: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem,--1947-
University of California, Los Angeles
Basketball
Basketball players
College graduates--California--Los Angeles
Costumes
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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