Photograph of Rafer Johnson in a UCLA sweatshirt

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Photograph of Rafer Johnson in a UCLA sweatshirt. The black and white, vertical photograph depicts Rafer Johnson in a light-colored UCLA quarter-zip sweatshirt. His is turned slightly towards the proper right side and is smiling. He holds a shotput in his proper right hand, and a discus in his proper left hand. He is wearing sweatpants with the number “20” on the proper left thigh. He stands behind a piece of wood fence or railing with a javelin leaning against it and resting on Johnson’s proper right shoulder. The photograph has a thin white margin around the image. There are no inscriptions, front or back.

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