Subject: Long distance swimming--California--Santa Catalina Island Region - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of boats and swimmers with their heads just visible above the water in Isthmus Cove at the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, Santa Catalina Island. A boat in the center carries the identification placard for swimmer number 39 (Hjalmer J. Johnson, who resided at 2832 Kerskhoff Avenue, San Pedro, Calif.). The name of the larger boat on the left is partially visible as "...Patrick." During the marathon swim, a boat with a swim coach and at least one official observer followed each participant.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of 4 swimmers, a woman on the left and 3 men on the right, on the shore before the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon at Isthmus Cove, Santa Catalina Island. They are all covered in dark oil to provide insulation against the cold ocean temperature. Spectators observe from higher ground behind the swimmers and a number placard for swimmer 28 is on the right.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a Wrigley Ocean Marathon swimmer rescued from the cold water of the Catalina Channel standing on the gang plank of a boat covered with a blanket. Spectators watch from either side of the gang plank.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of a Wrigley Ocean Marathon swimmer rescued from the cold ocean. He is covered in blankets on a stretcher that 2 men carry down the gang plank of a boat. Spectators on either side of the gang plank watch.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Watson, George R., 1892-1977
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the shore of Isthmus Cove on Santa Catalina Island on the day of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon. Placards with the numbers assigned to the swimmers, on sticks stuck in the sand, line the shore along with a few small boats. A few marathon workers are among the placards and boats and a few spectators stand on the higher ground behind them with a small building in the distance. The absence of the swimmers indicates that the time is either somewhat before or after the 11:00 am start of the marathon.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of row boats and swimmers with their heads just visible above the water in Isthmus Cove at the start of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, Santa Catalina Island. During the marathon swim, a boat with a swim coach and at least one official observer followed each participant. Somewhat larger boats are in the background and a steam ship named "Avalon" is on the left.
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Pauline Jackson is referenced as an open water swimmer in this article: "Leaders Here Boost Pauline Jackson. C. C. Firzgerald Heads Group Promoting Benefit for English Channel Aspirant. $15,000 Is Objective. Royal And Out-town Theatres Aiding Swimmer." The Afro-American, Feb. 1928: 20
Date:: January 15, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: Byron Summers, competitor in the January marathon Catalina Channel swim, had to stop his swim when overcome by a leg cramp. He won the marathon swim the following April.
Date:: January 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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