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Selma Posner and Lillian Cassel play cage ball at the Y.W.C.A., Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Selma Posner and Lillian Cassel play cage ball at the Y.W.C.A., Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1926
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Thin Ones Get Fat and Fat Ones Thin," Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1926: A1.
Cage ball has been successfully introduced at the Young Women's Christian Association.
Selma holds the ball over her head while Lillian, a few inches shorter than Selma, reaches out to grab it.
Handwritten on negative: SELMA POSNER + LILLIAN CASSEL Y.W.CA. 2/16/26
Text from negative sleeve: ZEMURRAY, SAMUEL UNITED FRUIT CO.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2502
ark:/21198/zz002dc8t8
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Balls (Sporting goods)
Gymnasiums--California--Los Angeles
Sport clothes
Cassel, Lillian
Young Women's Christian Association
Posner, Selma
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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