Finding Aid for the Collection of Material About the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, 1932 LSC.2025

Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library Special Collections
© 2000
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Business Number: 310-825-4988
Fax Number: 310-206-1864
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu


Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games collection of material
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2025
Physical Description: 2 oversize_boxes
Physical Description: 2 boxes
Physical Description: 2 oversize_boxes
Date: 1932
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Language of Material: English .

Restrictions on Access

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Collection of Material About the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games (Collection 2025). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942327823606533 

Scope and Content

Collection consists of programs, clippings, and souvenir materials relating to the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Includes souvenir programs, stamps, cards, photographs, tickets, newspaper sections, scrapbooks, a map, pennants, flags, and rings. Also includes a complete run of official programs from July 30, 1932-August 14, 1932.

Additional Physical Form Available

A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
  • Public Services Division
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  • Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
  • Box 951575
  • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Olympic Games (10th : 1932 : Los Angeles, Calif.)

box 1, folder 1

Olympics Games souvenir programs with sections about Los Angeles and California. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 1, folder 2

Olympic Games souvenir programs. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 24 items.
box 1, folder 3

Photographs. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 1, folder 4

Cultural and sports events relating to the Olympic Games--ephemera. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 1, folder 5

Souvenir stamps. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 1 sheet.
box 1, folder 6

Souvenir stamps. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 1 sheet.
box 1, folder 7

Souvenir stamps. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 1 type, in 3 sections
box 1, folder 8

Olympic Games tickets; 1 envelope, 2 ticket application forms. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 33 items.
box 1, folder 9

Olympic Games souvenir cards, bilder-gruppe 19, photochemical prints. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 51 items.
box 1, folder 10

Olympic Games souvenir cards, bilder-gruppe 20, photochemical prints. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 51 items.
box 1, folder 11

Olympic Games souvenir cards, bilder-gruppe 21, photochemical prints. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 1, folder 12

Olympic Games souvenir cards, bilder-gruppe 22, photochemical prints. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 26 items.
box 1, folder 13

Olympic Games souvenir cards, bilder-gruppe 23, photochemical prints. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 51 items.
box 1, folder 14

Souvenir viewbooks (photochemical prints connected by accordion folds, for mailing). n.d.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 1, folder 15

Newspaper sections on the Olympic Games. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 1, folder 16

Olympic realia: pennants, flags, rings, etc.. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 40 items.
box 1, folder 17

Olympic history. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2, folder 1

Official programs, 10th Olympiad. July 30-31, 1932 and n.d.

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 2, folder 2

Official programs, 10th Olympiad. . August 1-9, 1932 n.d.

General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 2, folder 3

Official programs, 10th Olympiad. August 10-14, 1932 and n.d.

General Physical Description note: 12 items.
box 3, folder 1

Olympic Games stylized map, scroll, and empty cover from Olympic souvenir program. n.d.

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 5

Scrapbook of the Olympic Games of 1932, in Los Angeles (1 of 2) 1932

Container Summary: Contains clippings, photographs, and related ephemera. Gift of Robert C. Carter, 1956.
box 6

Scrapbook of the Olympic Games of 1932, in Los Angeles (2 of 2) 1932

Container Summary: Contains clippings, photographs, and related ephemera. Gift of Robert C. Carter, 1956.