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Women, probably participants in a Jack Kearns dance marathon, walk through a crowd towards a police patrol car, Los Angeles, probably 1934

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Title: Women, probably participants in a Jack Kearns dance marathon, walk through a crowd towards a police patrol car, Los Angeles, probably 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: [probably May 9, 1934]
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.
The negative sleeve annotation relates this image to Jack Kearns, an American boxing manager. Kearns sponsored a controversial dance marathon (which he termed "walkathon" to get around ordinances) in Los Angeles in 1934. It was raided on May 9.
Photograph of a line of women, the last 2 have numbers on their backs (16 and 52), seen from the back, striding through a crowd of spectators towards a street with a patrol car parked on it. The women are probably dance marathon participants. Two houses are visible on the opposite side of the street.
Probably related to the article, "Walkathon Converted Into Series of 'Derbies.' All Out on Bail After Police Act Under Old Law," 10 May 1934: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: Kearns, Jack "Doc"
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10591
ark:/21198/zz002hbkqv
Subject: Dance marathons--California--Los Angeles
Kearns, Jack, 1882-1963
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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