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

Item Overview
- 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
Notes
- Description
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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
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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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
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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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- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
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- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
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- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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