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Title: Cassius Clay and Mayor Yorty
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
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: Unbeaten young heavyweight contender Cassius Clay, showed up at City Hall to invite Mayor Sam Yorty to his bout with Argentina's Alejandro Lavorante at the Sports Area. Clay and Lavorante head the 20th annual City of Hope "Fight for Lives" boxing card. Photograph dated July 25, 1962.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00053904
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 4753
CARL0000057751
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/20073
Subject: Ali, Muhammad,--1942-2016
Yorty, Sam,--1909-1998
Boxers (Sports)--United States
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
City halls--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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