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Checker champion Leonard Leslie Hall and H. P. Kidwell play separate games, surrounded by other club members, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Checker champion Leonard Leslie Hall and H. P. Kidwell play separate games, surrounded by other club members, 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.
Club members Hall and Kidwell focus on their separate games of checkers while they are watched by an unknown spectator.
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.
Photograph appears with the article, "Game That Makes Men Equal Flourishes Here," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: 3599 - L. L. Hall (state chess- checkers) H. P. Kidwell (L. A. Chess and Checker Club) 2/6/36 [stamped:] Feb 11 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Serious? You have to be solemn when you're State checker champion. With his hand poised on a king is L. L. Hall, California winner. H. P. Kidwell is at the right.
Handwritten on negative: H.P. Kidwell/L.L. Hall (State champ)
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12682
ark:/21198/zz002hmr00
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Board games--California--Los Angeles
Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Checkers
Kidwell, H. P
Hall, Leonard Leslie, b. 1900
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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