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Title: Ron Morris
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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.
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Description: Photograph caption dated September 21, 1960 reads "Ron Morris, 25, Burbank athlete who earned a silver medal in Rome's 1960 Olympics with his 15 1/2-foot pole vault, receives a congratulatory kiss from his wife, Paula, 24, after being honored by Burbank City Council. At Tuesday night meeting, Mayor Newell J. Cooper gave commemorative scroll to Morris, 1616 1/2 W. Oak St., and proclaimed Oct 8 'Ron Morris Day' in Burbank."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00162079
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d064_f28_i12
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/131928
Subject: Morris, Ronald
Olympic athletes
Track and field athletes
Men
Women
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Time Period: 1951-1960

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