Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2018.217Description
black and white photograph, mounted on board, Tarzan (Ellison) Brown competing at the Boston Marathon, 1939.
Tarzan Brown was a Narragansett Indian and world-class runner who competed in the 1936 Olympics and won the 1936 and 1939 Boston Marathon. He was born in Porter Hill, RI in 1914 and died in Westerly, RI in 1975.