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Title: Wrestling match on beach, Santa Monica Athletic Club
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
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1935
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a crowd amid beach umbrellas watching two wrestlers in an outdoor boxing ring on the beach in front of the Santa Monica Athletic Club in Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica Athletic Club building and a cafe sign advertising "Clam Chowder" can be seen in the background. The man in the bottom right corner is wearing shorts with the initials "LAAC," for the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Title devised by cataloger based on note from envelope the negative was received in: "Santa Monica A.C. Boxing." Date supplied by cataloger based on the crane and flat-bottom barge, which were used to build the breakwater in 1934, that can be seen in another image from this set, photCL_555_06_654. The Los Angeles Athletic Club purchased a building at 1441 Palisades Beach Road (the North Beach Bath House) and transformed it into the Santa Monica Athletic Club in 1922. The girl wearing a coat seen in the left center of image photCL_555_06_656 can also be seen in the center of this image.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489583
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18412
Subject: Santa Monica Athletic Club (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Athletics
Wrestling
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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