US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Jewish women athletes Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Negative and negative sleeve are undated but a similar photograph likely taken on the same occasion appears in the Los Angeles Times in January and August of 1936. Helene Mayer is lunged forward in a fencing pose with her sword. She wears an all-white uniform. Handwritten on negative: Helene Mayer Text from newspaper caption: Mayer, Helene
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6259 ark:/21198/zz002cwff9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fencers--California--Los Angeles Jewish women athletes--California--Los Angeles Athletes--German--United States Mayer, Helene, 1910-1953
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