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Description:: The swimmers are identified, with with their registration numbers and home addresses, in The Catalina Islander, 12 Jan. 1927: 5.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
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.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The three women stand shoulder-to-shoulder, each one leaning on her own golf club.
Date:: May 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of boats in Isthmus Cove on the day of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon. The boats, carrying swim coaches and observers, followed the marathon swimmers. The registration numbers assigned to the swimmers are posted on the boats. The foreground boat carries the placard for swimmer number 3 (Tony Ajax, 4027 E. 14th Street, Long Beach, Calif.) and the boat on the left for no. 15 (Jack Craig, 20 Avenue 19, Venice, Calif.).
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of swimmers and spectators on the shore before the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove on Santa Catalina Island. Placards on wooden posts with the swimmers' numbers are line up along the shore.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of the tug boat "John N Stewart" off the shore of Santa Catalina Island, visible in the distance. A sign on top of the boat reads "The Associated Press." About 10 men wearing suits are visible on the decks.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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