Jimmy Cherry preparing for endurance swim, Los Angeles, 1928
Item Overview
- Title
- Jimmy Cherry preparing for endurance swim, Los Angeles, 1928
- Date Created
- [circa October 14, 1928]
- Date
- 1928-10-14
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Handwritten on negative: Jimmy Cherry
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Cherry Breaks Aquatic Mark for Endurance,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct 1928: 11, 13.
On October 14, 1928, former navy aquatic champion Jimmy Cherry set the endurance record for swimming by remaining in the Bimini Baths outdoor pool for sixty-five hours and two minutes. He was the first man in aquatic history to set a world’s endurance record.
Fellow swimmers apply sunscreen on Jimmy Cherry. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Cherry, Jimmy, Swimmer
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Cherry, Jimmy
- Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.069727
- Latitude
- -118.289565
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
Swimming pools--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1647
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dc4xw
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
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 .