Athlete Bud Houser throwing a discus at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1922-1926
Item Overview
- Title
- Athlete Bud Houser throwing a discus at the Coliseum, Los Angeles, 1922-1926
- Date Created
- [Between 1922 and 1926]
- Date
- 1922/1926
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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This is a photograph of Bud Houser in the throwing event of discus. He is wearing a track uniform of the University of Southern California, where he was a student from 1922 to 1926. In this photograph, Houser has just released his discus in his characteristic style. In the background, other athletes and onlookers watch the discus [not in frame] as it travels.
Bud Houser was an American athlete who participated in the 1924 Olympics where he won gold medals for shot put and discus, and the 1928 Olympics where he retained his title in the discus throw.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Houser, Bud Lemuel Clarence, 1901-1994 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.013872
- Latitude
- -118.287145
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Track athletics--California--Los Angeles
Track and field athletes--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_9639
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dhr71
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .