Identifier	owens022a
Title	Owens, Jesse: 1936
Name	Owens, Jesse (1913-1980)
Additional Names	Metcalfe, Ralph
Profession	Athletics
Subject	African Americans Track athletics Track And Field Sports Athletes A.A.U. Track and Field Meet Owens, Jesse Metcalfe, Ralph
Description	"Owens takes 100 meters at Princeton: Ralph Metcalfe, Milwaukee (left), who finished second, congratulating Jesse Owens, Ohio State flash, after the latter had won the 100-meter dash at the AAU track and field meet in Princeton, N.J., July 4 [1936]. Owens's winning time of 10.4 seconds tied the meet record held jointly by Eddie Tolan, Detroit, 1932, and Metcalfe, 1934." --photo verso.
Accomplishments	Track star. Won four gold medals at Berlin Olympics, 1936.
Citation	Davis - Black Americans in Cleveland.
Creator	ACME Newspictures, Inc.
Location Depicted	Princeton, New Jersey
Time Period	Post-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original	1936
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Size of Original	6x8 in.
Digital Collection	Notable Blacks of Cleveland
Collection Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/notableblacks/
Donor	Joseph E. Cole
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	Jpeg
Digital Processing Notes	TIF File Size: 280 k - DPI: 300
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press Notable Blacks of Cleveland
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=OJ1
Further Reading	http://scholar.csuohio.edu/search/d?SEARCH=owens%2C+jesse

Owens, Jesse: 1936

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