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. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Louis Zamperini ran track and field for Torrance High School and USC. He qualified in the 5000 meters race for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. While attending USC in 1938, he set the national collegiate mile record. Profile shot of Louis Zamperini running on the track of Bovard Field, University of Southern California. He is wearing a Torrance High School track uniform. Handwritten on negative sleeve: 5608. Louie Zamperino [i.e. Zamperini]. U.S.C. runner. [stamped:] Jun 7 1938.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14328 ark:/21198/zz002j7wmq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles Olympic athletes University of Southern California Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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