Swimmers beginning the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island, 1927

Item Overview

Title

Swimmers beginning the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island, 1927

Photographer

Watson, George R., 1892-1977

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

View of swimmers beginning the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove on Santa Catalina Island. Starting with the swimmer in the 1-shouldered black swim suit on the right, seven swimmers are identified in the newspaper caption from R to L. Boats in the water wait to accompany the swimmers, who attempting to swim the channel to Point Vincent on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Catalina Channel Swim, 1927
Text from newspaper caption: Off on the Long Grind -(1) Norman Ross (2) Bert Rovere (3) Carl Ruoff (4) Sammy Sandow (5) Mrs. Charlotte Schoemmell (6) Isaac Shamus (7) Bobbie Schwartz [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]
Handwritten on negative: 14 L-SC

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Schoemmell, Charlotte Lottie Moore, 1895-1966
Sandow, Sammy
Ross, Norman DeMille, 1895-1953
Schwartz, Bobbie
Rovere, Bert
Ruoff, Carl
Shamus, Isaac

Location

Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)

Longitude

33.442579

Latitude

-118.499458

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Isthmus Cove (Santa Catalina Island)
Long distance swimming--California--Santa Catalina Island Region
Swimmers--California--Santa Catalina Island
Wrigley Ocean Marathon