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 Arcadia funds. *No stamped date is given, date from the newspaper article is used. Katherine lost the wager of a box of chocolate-coated marshmallows by not equaling her own world record in the jump. Photograph appears with the article, "Shiny Nose Costs Record." Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1921: II1. Katherine's feet are slightly blurry as her legs are bent on opposite sides of the bar as she is shown mid-jump. Handwritten on negative: 8 8 Text from negative sleeve: Track - UCLA women meet Text from newspaper caption: Violet Ball Wins Hurdle Race (below) and Katherine Burroughs, High Jumper. Miss Ball, who is shown on the left, negotiated the 60 yards over timber obstructions in 9^238 Zoe Emerson, at Miss Ball's left, was second, and Fanny Burt, on the right, was third. Miss Burroughs set a mark of 4ft. 7in. in the high jump, which is somewhat below her own record.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3911 ark:/21198/zz002cpm7x
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Jumping--California--Los Angeles Track athletics--California--Los Angeles Burroughs, Katherine
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