Unique archive of material related to the Los Angeles 1932 Summer Olympics. Highlighted by an assortment of seventeen candid glossy photos, 2 x 3.25 and 3.25 x 2, showing moments from the opening ceremony as well as Olympic events like the modern pentathlon, equestrian, water polo, diving, and field hockey. Also included: six glossy candids, 1.5 x 2.25 and 2.25 x 1.5, showing various Olympians and servicemen, each stamp-dated on the reverse, “Aug. 1, 1932”; five glossy 2.5 x 4.25 full-length photos of Olympians Helene Madison, Eleanor Holm, Georgia Coleman, Buster Crabbe and Jean Taris, and one other; and three off-white 8 x 10.25 album pages signed on the front and back in pencil by approximately 70 Olympians from various sports such as boxing, swimming, field hockey, rowing, and yachting. Also includes a scrapbook with several pages of period newspaper clippings of Olympic athletes, and a handwritten three-page program of events filled out with detailed information on the Games’ medalists, headed at the top, “This Program of Events of the Games of the Xth Olympiad, showing Olympic records and 1928 winners, is included in this book for the convenience of those desiring to keep a permanent record of place winners in the Games of 1932.” Made all the more desirable by its one-of-a-kind assemblage of photographs, this is a decidedly uncommon grouping of items related to the historic LA Olympics and the athletes competing in the shadow of the Great Depression.
