Names: Ross, Norman DeMille, 1895-1953 / Subject: Long distance swimming--California--Santa Catalina Island Region - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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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