Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Olympic Games (8th : 1924 : Paris, France) / Subject: Sports - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Mariechen M. Wehselau (later Jackson) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and silver medal in the 100 m freestyle event.
Date:: May 17, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mariechen M. Wehselau (later Jackson) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and silver medal in the 100 m freestyle event.
Date:: May 17, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Mariechen Wehselau, standing on the roof of a building wearing her swimsuit. Wehselau was in Los Angeles for exhibition swims en route to the Olympic tryouts in New York on June 7-8.
Date:: May 17, 1924
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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