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H. W. Christiansen jumping a country club gate at the Griffith Park Riding Academy, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: H. W. Christiansen jumping a country club gate at the Griffith Park Riding Academy, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1932
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.
Photograph of H. W. Christiansen jumping a country club gate, one of the Prix de Nations jumps from the recent Olympic Games, on a white horse at the Griffith Park Riding Academy.
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.
Text from newspaper caption: Below - Capt. Christiansen on Gray Eagle, jumping the country club gate.
Photograph appears with the article, "Olympic Equestrian Test Offered. Hard Jumps in Griffith Park Await Southland Riders," Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 1932: A1.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10641
ark:/21198/zz002hbnfp
Subject: Jumping (Horsemanship)--California--Los Angeles
Christiansen, H. W
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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