(TRACK STAR & JURIST) A pair of photographs of Edward Orval "Ned" Gourdin (1897-1966), an American athlete and jurist, here in his Harvard track gear. Gourdin was the first man in history to make 25 feet in the long jump and the first African American and Native American to be appointed a Superior Court Judge in New England. He won a Silver medal at the 1924 Olympics. Silver prints, the images measuring 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches (16.5x11.4 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, each with Gourdin's name in the negative, and each with a typed caption and date, and one with a Culver Service stamp and label and the other with a Bain News Service stamp on verso. 1921
