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Prix des Nations jumps from the Olympic games set up in Griffith Park Riding Academy, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: Prix des Nations jumps from the Olympic games set up in Griffith Park Riding Academy, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1932
1932-10
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.
View of some of the Prix des Nations horse jumping obstacles from the recent Los Angeles Olympic games set up in Griffith Park Riding Academy with 6 riders in the ring, 3 of them taking hurdles.
After the conclusion of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Alfred Meyer had the jumps of the equestrian events installed at the Griffith Park Riding Academy. To accommodate all of the jumps, he leased property adjoining the Academy, extending to Los Felix Boulevard.
Photograph appears with the article, "Olympic Equestrian Test Offered. Hard Jumps in Griffith Park Await Southland Riders," Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 1932: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: Above - Some of the Prix des Nations jumps set up in Griffith Park Riding Academy, Capt. H. W. Christiansen, Capt. J. E. Finn and Miss Leon Wald are shown taking the hurdles.
Text from negative sleeve: Los Angeles parks, Griffith Park Riding Academy.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10639
ark:/21198/zz002hbncn
Subject: Jumping (Horsemanship)--California--Los Angeles
Wald, Leon Miss
Christiansen, H. W
Finn, J. E
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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