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Title
Andre the Giant and Willie Shoemaker
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1982
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, 1899-1989.
Andre the Giant, all of 7-foot-4, holds jockey Willie Shoemaker, all of 4-foot-11, on January 24, 1982.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00048877
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Andre the Giant; HE-002-406 4x5
CARL0000052924
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17351
Subject
Andre,--the Giant,--1946-1993
Shoemaker, Bill,--1931-2003
Jockeys--United States
Wrestlers--United States
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990

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