Spectators on the shore watch swimmers begin the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island, 1927

Title: Spectators on the shore watch swimmers begin 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: View of spectators on the shore watching swimmers begin the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island. Boats with swim coaches and observers follow the swimmers.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Catalina Channel Swim, 1927
Text from newspaper caption: Some of the Scores of Boats Dotting Cove at Start of Swim [From Photo standalone page: "Getting Away With Channel Swimmers at Catalina Island Yesterday (Photos by George Watson, Times Staff Photographer)." Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1927: A3]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.441827
Latitude: -118.498642
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Isthmus Cove (Santa Catalina Island)
Long distance swimming--California--Santa Catalina Island Region
Swimmers--California--Santa Catalina Island
Spectators--California--Santa Catalina Island
Wrigley Ocean Marathon

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1528
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dc0td
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