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Boxing Champion Billie Bachelis replaces a punching bag at a May Company demonstration, Los Angeles, 1931

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Title: Boxing Champion Billie Bachelis replaces a punching bag at a May Company demonstration, Los Angeles, 1931
Date Created and/or Issued: December, 1931
1931-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Billie Bachelis, Women's Amateur Lightweight Boxing Champion, and a department store clerk replace the punching bag at her demonstration at The May Company. A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with a front page photo titled "There's Punch in Her Career: Girl Boxer Earns Cash for College," Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 1931: A1.
Handwritten on negative: Billie Bachelis
Text from negative sleeve: Bachelis, Billie. Boxer.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G241
ark:/21198/z1mq0w1x
Language: English
Subject: Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Bachelis, Billie Constance, 1913-1993
May Company California
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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