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Chess and Checker Club members M. Starker and Holgar Johansen play a game, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Chess and Checker Club members M. Starker and Holgar Johansen play a game, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 11, 1936
1936-02-11
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
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.
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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Game That Makes Men Equal Flourishes Here," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: A1.
Members of the Chess and Checker Club Mr. Johansen and Mr. Starker play a game while other members play on their own boards or watch them.
Handwritten on negative: Holgar Johansen M. Starker
Text from negative sleeve: 3599 - M. Starker Holgar Johansen (L. A. Chess and Checker Club) 2/6/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12681
ark:/21198/zz002hmqz0
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Board games--California--Los Angeles
Chess
Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Johansen, Holgar
Starker, M
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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