Title from caption on object: “Owens Sets Broad Jump Record”, August 4, 1936

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28 × 20.5 cm (11 × 8 1/16 in.)

sheet: 29.9 × 20.5 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.589

Artists / Makers

Unknown, 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom printed in image: (NY11) BERLIN, AUGUST 4--OWENS SETS BROAD JUMP RECORD--This radiophoto / from Berlin shows Jesse Owens, Olympic 100 meter champion who broke the / Olympic broad jump record today with a leap of 25 feet 4 47/64 inches, / in action in a qualifying jump this morning. The old mark of 25 feet / 4 3/4 inches was made by Edward Hamm in 1925. (ss31300apgb) 1936.; on verso, center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary