US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Steiner leans forward over Wolos' board examining the pieces while other men watch their game or sit waiting for their turn against the "chess master". Photograph appears with the article, "Game That Makes Men Equal Flourishes Here," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: A1. At 810 West Sixth Street the Chess and Checker Club meets. The club has members from various backgrounds, some are cattlemen, some are novelists, and there are more than 200 members. Text from negative sleeve: 3599 - S. Wolos Herman Steiner (L. A. Chess and Checker Club) 2/6/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936 Handwritten on negative: Herman Steiner S. Wolos Text from newspaper caption: Strolling amid thirty chessboards, Herman Steiner, right, chess master and Times writer, carries on a simultaneous multiple match. At left, S. Wolos, New York visitor, studies his next play. Other participants scan Wolos's board carefully.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12679 ark:/21198/zz002hmqwz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Clubs--California--Los Angeles Chess Tournaments--California--Los Angeles Board games--California--Los Angeles Wolos, S. (Solomon) Steiner, Herman 1905-1955
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