Image / Olympic fencer Helene Mayer, Los Angeles, ca. 1936

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Title: Olympic fencer Helene Mayer, Los Angeles, ca. 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa January, 1936]
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.
Negative and negative sleeve are undated but a similar photograph likely taken on the same occasion appears in the Los Angeles Times in January and August of 1936.
Helen Mayer poses in her fencing garb, holding her mask and sword in a gloved hand.
Handwritten on negative: Helene Mayer
Text from negative sleeve: Mayer, Helene
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_6260
ark:/21198/zz002cwfgt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fencers--California--Los Angeles
Jewish women athletes--California--Los Angeles
Athletes--German--United States
Mayer, Helene, 1910-1953
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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