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Title: Buster Crabbe
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
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: Crabbe was a winning olympian who competed in both 1928 (bronze medalist for the 1,500 metres freestyle) and 1932 (gold medalist for the 400 metres freestyle). In the 1950s, he was a popular film and television actor, who portrayed such characters as Tarzan and Buck Rogers.
Buster Crabbe shown paying a traffic fine on August 30, 1944.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00051398
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2276; HE-002-604 4x5
CARL0000055730
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18877
Subject: Crabbe, Buster,--1908-1983
Traffic violations--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Television actors and actresses--United States
Olympic athletes--United States
Swimmers--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1941-1950

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