Goodwill tour of the Orient, 1958

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1 image. Goodwill tour of the Orient, 23 March 1958. Ernest Shelton; Major Jesse Liscomb. "Sports". (Sleeve reads: SP 12289).; Supplementary material reads: "From News Bureau, Pan American World Airways. Sports. For SC graduate, Ernest Shelton (left), discusses details of a U.S. State Department sponsored goodwill trip with Major Jesse Liscomb (right) before the two along with four other AAU athletes board a Pan American Airways Clipper for a month long tour of the Orient and Far East. They left tonight (3/22). Shelton, 25, is currently taking a leave of absence from his Army duties at the Persidio (sic) in San Francisco where he is Pfc., although his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Shelton, still reside here at 1627 W. 67th St., Los Angeles. Ernest, who has been an outstanding indoor athletic titleholder for many years, tied for 2nd place in the 1958 AAU meet with a 6' 6 1/2" highjump. He also held the national highjump title in 1954 and 1955 beside 1956 indoor champion. He said when he completes his time in the Army, which is about six months, he will return to Los Angeles and re-enter art school for extra training as a commercial artist. Maj. Liscomb, who is heading the tour, is the athletic director of Fort Lee, Virginia, however, his hometown in New York. Other athletes in the group include, Willie Stevens, a hurdler, of Nashville, Tenn., A & I; William Smith, a sprinter, of Detroit; Steve Barthold, of 440 and 880 race, of New York; and Jerry Welbourn, a polevaulter, with the U.S.A.F., of Philadelphia. The major said they will compete with similar teams in the various countries which are Hawaii, Japan, Formosa, Singapore, Thailand, Burma and Korea".

Asset Metadata

Title Goodwill tour of the Orient, 1958

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Temporal Subject 1958-03-23

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Language English

Source Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961 (subcollection), Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1958-03-23

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/examiner-m14371

Identifier EXM-N-12289-049~1 (filename), examiner-m1663 (legacy collection record id), examiner-c44-92464 (legacy record id), examiner-m14371 (legacy record id), 12289-049 (sleeve number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 92464

Unique identifier UC11730790

Legacy Identifier EXM-N-12289-049~1.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.5 in × 28.3 in at 300dpi
57.3 cm × 72.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

Description The Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. It was a daily newspaper, published in the afternoon on weekdays (Herald-Express) and in the morning on weekends (Examiner). The afternoon and morning papers merged in 1962 (Herald Examiner).

? 1903-1989: Los Angeles Examiner (founded 1903)
? 1931-1962: Los Angeles Herald-Express (formed from the 1931 merger of Los Angeles Evening Express and Evening Herald)
? 1962-1989: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (formed from the 1962 merger of the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the Los Angeles Examiner)

Almost every event and individual receiving news coverage in Los Angeles during the period late 1920's to 1961 is represented in the collection. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment. The collection forms part of the Hearst Collection and was a gift from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation in 1978.

The Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection (1950-1961) consists of approximately 215,000 4x5-inch negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

The Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection consists of approximately 1.2 million photoprints from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

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