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Title
Great Americans in any league
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1951
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Jim Thorpe, fabulous all-American athlete, was on hand at Union Station to greet Ty Cobb (right), when the all-time baseball great arrived here to officiate in the Kiwanis charity baseball game at Gilmore Field. Photo dated March 9, 1951.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00053247
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 425
CARL0000057103
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19589
Subject
Thorpe, Jim,--1887-1953
Cobb, Ty,--1886-1961
Union Passenger Terminal (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Athletes--United States
Baseball--California--Los Angeles
Baseball players--United States
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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