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. Boxers Tiger Flowers (L) and Eddie Huffman in a match at Ascot Park with a referee and spectators in the background. Tiger Flowers was the first African American middleweight boxing champion. This match took place in Ascot park near Gardena, Calif., which became a raceway in 1957 and later closed in 1990. Photograph published in article: "Tiger Flowers Whips Eddie Huffman at Ascot", Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1926: A1. Text on negative sleeve: Hoffman[sic] vs. Flowers boxers
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_5098 ark:/21198/zz002cv2d1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles Huffman, Eddie T., 1905-1977 Flowers, Tiger, 1895-1927
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