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Jesse Owens kisses his new bride
Jesse Owens kisses his new bride
Identifierowens039.jpg
TitleJesse Owens kisses his new bride
SubjectOwens, Jesse
Athletes
Owens, Minnie Ruth
Kissing
Description"Jesse Owens, famous track star of Ohio State University, is shown giving his bride a kiss after the wedding ceremony uniting Jesse to his Cleveland girl, Minnie Ruth Solomon. For a time the happiness of Minnie Ruth was threatened when a report was circulated that Jesse was engaged to Miss Quincella Nickerson of Los Angeles. The wedding took place at the home of the bride a few hours after Owens arrived in Cleveland from Chicago." --photo verso.
CreatorAcme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Location DepictedCleveland (Ohio)
Time PeriodPost-Industrial: 1930-1959
Date Original1935-07-05
Object Typeblack-and-white photographs
Size of Original6 x 8 in.
CollectionCleveland Press
Collection Homepagehttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
DonorCole, Joseph E.
Copyrighthttp://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Formatjpeg
RepositoryCleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Homepagehttp://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/
Digital PublisherCleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entryhttp://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=OJ1
Further Readinghttp://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Jesse+Owens
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