Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Resource Type: still image / Subject: Diving--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Springboard diver Marjorie Gestring leaping from the board in front of stands of spectators. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin Gestring won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving. She was 13 years old at the time and was the youngest person ever to win an Olympic gold medal. Gestring was a native Los Angeleno
Date:: [between 1930-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: 4 young women, in midair diving into pool from high diving boards, wearing bathing suits and bathing caps, with other swimmers in and around pool and spectators on benches on pool deck, with fence-topped wall and eucalyptus trees in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: 5 young women, 1 in midair performing a back dive into pool from high diving board, 4 waiting on board, wearing bathing suits and bathing caps, with other swimmers in and around pool and spectators on benches on pool deck, with fence-topped wall and trees in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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