Mariechen M. Wehselau, future Olympic Gold Medal swimmer, Los Angeles, 1924
Item Overview
- Title
- Mariechen M. Wehselau, future Olympic Gold Medal swimmer, Los Angeles, 1924
- Date Created
- May 17, 1924
- Date
- 1924-05-17
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Mariechen M. Wehselau (later Jackson) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and silver medal in the 100 m freestyle event.
Mariechen Wehselau, standing on the roof of a building wearing her swimsuit. Wehselau was in Los Angeles for exhibition swims en route to the Olympic tryouts in New York on June 7-8.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Olympic Games (8th : 1924 : Paris, France)
Wehselau, Mariechen M., 1906-1992 - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sports
Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
People
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4300
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cq2nv
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .