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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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