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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Handwritten on note (see Item Ark: 21198/zz002cpjdj) in negative sleeve: Fleet tract [sic] me[...] Long Beach May 12 1922 Sailor Flynn of the Pacific Fleet's Air Force is captured mid-jump as he participates in the broad jump competition. The landing pit extends across the foreground and back towards center. Flynn hovers in mid-air, in the mid-ground at center. He pikes his body with his head and feet stretching towards camera. Both of his arms fly back behind him. To either side of him, spectators, athletes, sailors and track officials line the pit. This photograph appears with the article, "CALIFORNIA'S ATHLETES CAPTURE THE FLEET TRACK AND FIELD TITLE: FLEET AIR FORCE IS SECOND IN CLOSE MEET; Native Sons Roll Up 38 Points as Aviators Are Collecting 36; Mississippi is Third Sea Dogs in Violent Action," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1 Text from negative sleeve: TRACK, NAVY MEET AT LONG BEACH, 1922 Text from newspaper caption, Exciting Moments in the Pacific Fleet Cinder Championships Sailor Flynn, shown above, collected a flock of points yesterday afternoon at Long Beach High for the Pacific Fleet Air Force in the broad jump. Palmer and Waldrop, both of the U.S.S. New York, are observed in the lower picture helping each other bust the tape at the finish of the 220. Spies[?] of the U.S.S. California is seen bounding in a close third. [Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3850 ark:/21198/zz002cpj4d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Jumping--California--Long Beach Track athletics--California--Long Beach Track and field athletes--California--Long Beach Military personnel--American--California--Long Beach United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet
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