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Title: [Clown and two men dressed as women]
Date Created and/or Issued: [1933]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Stamped on verso: "20th Annual Olympic Club Track & Field Meet at San Quentin prison, c. 1920."
2012-0136.
Annual event sponsored by the Olympic Club of San Francisco. Prison inmates held a field and track day. 1933 was 20th and consisted of some 29 atheletic events, stunts, chorus girls and vaudeville acts performed by prisoners. Was sponsored by Frank G. O'Kane of the Olympic Club. Some 5000 inmates attended.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001456147CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: California State Prison at San Quentin--Photographs
Prisons--California--San Quentin
Prisoners--California--San Quentin
Track athletics--California--San Quentin
Clowns
Cross dressing--California--San Quentin
Vaudeville shows--California--San Quentin
San Quentin (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Quentin
San Quentin (Calif.)

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