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Mrs. S. Gross and some of the girls at the Y.W.C.A. playing cage ball, Los Angeles, 1926

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Title: Mrs. S. Gross and some of the girls at the Y.W.C.A. playing cage ball, Los Angeles, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued: February 1926
1926-02
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.
Cage ball has been successfully introduced at the Young Women's Christian Association.
Photograph appears with the article, "Thin Ones Get Fat and Fat Ones Thin," Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb 1926: A1.
About a dozen girls surround Mrs. Gross, who holds the cage ball above her head with the help of some of the other girls reaching up to support it.
Text from newspaper caption: Cage Ball in Y.W.C.A. Gymnasium Above-Romaine Smith and Helen Knight, the long and short of the game. Below--used up for play. In front, Mrs. S. Gross, Mollio Harnden, Helen Knight and Lavinia Weber.
Handwritten on negative: Y.W.C.A. Girls Clubs /10/26
Text from negative sleeve: ZEMURRAY, SAMUEL UNITED FRUIT CO.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2506
ark:/21198/zz002dc8zb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Nets
Balls (Sporting goods)
Sport clothes
Gymnasiums--California--Los Angeles
Gross, S., (Mrs.)
Harnden, Mollie
Young Women's Christian Association
Weber, Lavinia
Knight, Helen
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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