Names: Riggin, Aileen, 1906-2002 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Aileen Riggin, the young woman who won an Olympic championship for the United States diving team in 1920 at the age of 14, is stopping briefly in Los Angeles as she sails around the world on board the steamship President Van Buren of the Dollar Line.
Date:: March 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A group portrait photograph of Gertrude Ederle (center), Aileen Riggin (left), and Helen Wainwright (right), champion Olympic swimmers. The photograph may have been taken inside a hotel room or a dressing room in the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Possibly related to the article, "TRUDY OUT OF BIG SWIM: Miss Ederle Will Not Be Able to Make Attempt for Catalina Channel Prize," Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 1926: B2.
Date:: [December 1926(?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection