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Title: Willie O'Ree, L.A. Blades
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Rothschild Photo
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Swiftie--Willie O'Ree, the "Jackie Robinson of hockey" and the first Negro to ever play in the National Hockey League, will be playing his third season of left wing for the Los Angeles Blades during the 1963-64 Western Hockey League campaign.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00053808
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7
CARL0000058449
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/20491
Subject: O'Ree, Willie,--1935-
Hockey
Hockey players
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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