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B. G. Adams and Dr. Emanuel Lasker play chess as other watch at the L.A.A.C., Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: B. G. Adams and Dr. Emanuel Lasker play chess as other watch at the L.A.A.C., Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: [March 1926]
1926-03
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 Arcadia funds.
The L.A.A.C. (Los Angeles Athletic Club) was an chess club active in the 1920s and 1930s.
This photograph appears with the Colums, "Expert Chess-Player Here," Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 1926: G13
Text from negative sleeve: Floods, Montrose [negative is misfiled]
G. S. G. Peterson, Clarence Webber, Dr. Emanuel Lasker
Text from newspaper caption: D. Emanuel Lasker, expert chess player, was here last week, and demonstrated his skill before several of the "rook hounds" of the city. In the group, from left to right, are B. G. Adams, of the L.A.A.C.; John Dougherty, chess and checker editor of The Times; G. S. G. Patterson, chess editor of the Mercury; Clarence Webber of the L.A.A.C., and Dr. Lasker, who is regarded as one of the world's best chess players.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4634
ark:/21198/zz002cthdv
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Chess
Patterson, G. S. G
Webber, Clarence
Adams, B. G
Los Angeles Athletic Club
Lasker, Emanuel, 1868-1941
Dougherty, John, 1875-1932
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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