Swimmers on the shore before the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island, 1927

Title: Swimmers on the shore before the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island, 1927
Date Created: January 15, 1927
Date: 1926-01-15
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Pauline Jackson is referenced as an open water swimmer in this article: "Leaders Here Boost Pauline Jackson. C. C. Firzgerald Heads Group Promoting Benefit for English Channel Aspirant. $15,000 Is Objective. Royal And Out-town Theatres Aiding Swimmer." The Afro-American, Feb. 1928: 20
The swimmers are identified, with with their registration numbers and home addresses, in The Catalina Islander, 12 Jan. 1927: 5.
View of swimmers and spectators on the shore before the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove on Santa Catalina Island. Placards on wooden posts with the swimmers' numbers, ranging from 32 to 48, are lined up along the shore. Probable identifications of some of the swimmers are, L to R: Lyle S. Hubbard (2611 Robinwood Ave., Toledo, Ohio, blackened by oil), (32) Myrtle F. Huddleston, to the R of the sign (425 E. Seaside, Long Beach, Calif., blackened by oil), (34) Carl L. Hyde, to the L of the sign (1605 Hickory Ave., Torrance, Calif.), and (36) Pauline Jackson, perhaps, African-American swimmer, to the R of the sign (632 East 230th Street, New York, N.Y.).
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Catalina Channel Swim, 1927

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Huddleston, Myrtle, 1895-1937
Hyde, Carl L., b. 1896
Hubbard, Lyle Seabury, 1900-1967
Jackson, Pauline
Location: Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.441648
Latitude: -118.498256
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Swimmers--California--Santa Catalina Island
Long distance swimming--California--Santa Catalina Island Region
Isthmus Cove (Santa Catalina Island)
Sabotage--California
Wrigley Ocean Marathon
Spectators--California--Santa Catalina Island

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