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Title
Runners race during the Pacific Fleet championship track meet, Long Beach, 1922
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa May 12, 1922]
1922-05-12
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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A very similar photograph of athletes running a race at the same meet is captioned, "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
The Long Beach High School track stretches across the foreground and back to the left. Along the inside of the track at left, several runners race in a staggered line; they approach the camera. A wire fence lines the outside edge of the track at right. Beyond the fence, spectators fill the stands as they view the race. Some spectators are visible viewing the race from atop the stands' roof.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion 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
Handwritten on note (see Item Ark: 21198/zz002cpjdj) in negative sleeve: Fleet tract [sic] me[...] Long Beach May 12 1922
Text from negative sleeve: TRACK, NAVY MEET AT LONG BEACH, 1922
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3853
ark:/21198/zz002cpj7z
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Track athletics--California--Long Beach
Runners (Sports)--California--Long Beach
Track and field athletes--California--Long Beach
Military personnel--American--California--Long Beach
Running races--California--Long Beach
United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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