Subject: Swimmers--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Press release about the visit of swimmer Mariechen Wehselau to Los Angeles on her way to the Olympic tryouts in New York.
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:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, August 14, 1933, Gordon Warner Annexes One-Mile Ocean Swim, Troy Paddler Edges Out Herman Smith in Second Annual Red Cross Event; 114 Entered
Date:: August 13, 1933
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:: George Young, 17-year-old swimmer from Toronto, won the Wrigley Ocean Marathon swim from Catalina Island to Point Vicente, along the California coast. The 22 mile swim took him 15 hours and 44 minutes and earned him a $25,000 prize. Margaret C. Hauser of Long Beach and Martha Stager of Portland, Oregon also swam the marathon but did not finish.
Date:: January 17, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: This is a photograph of young swimmer Marion Himmelstein (later, Marion Ferguson), considered as one of the best girl swimmers to be trained in Southern California. During the time of this photograph, she belonged to the Club Casa Del Mar. In the picture, Marion is smiling into the camera, preparing to dive off a board into the pool below.
Date:: August 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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