Pasadena Athletic Club's women's relay team poses at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1925

Item Overview

Title

Pasadena Athletic Club's women's relay team poses at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, circa 1925

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977

Date Created

[circa May 16, 1925]

Date

1925-05-16

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

This image appears in the photo spread, "Sportographs," Los Angeles Times, 17 May 1925: I2
At center, the women's relay team from the Pasadena Athletic Club pose on the Coliseum's infield during a track meet. A dozen women stand in a row, facing camera, and look towards the left. They all wear their track uniforms. Spectators fill the stands in the background.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Pasadena Athletic Club Relay Team X
Handwritten on negative: Pasadena athletic Club. Womans relay team
Text from newspaper caption: Fair and fast. The girls' team of the Pasadena Athletic Club. At the Nurmi meet four of these fleet-footed runners came near to toppling over the 440-yard relay record. ("Times" Photo by George R. Watson) [Los Angeles Times, 17 May 1925: I2]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Group portraits

Names

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pasadena Athletic Club

Location

Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

34.013772

Latitude

-118.287387

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Spectators--California--Los Angeles
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Track athletics--California--Los Angeles