Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a group of about twenty-two swimmers in the water below the Venice diving tower -- a wood strut tower rising out of the water near the beach, ca.1905. One person is climing a ladder up the tower near the bottom while another is poised mid-air having just leapt from a swinging trapeze suspended from the tower. A group of swimmers stand in the shallow water in a cordoned-off area forming a water polo (or basketball) court. The shoreline and a canal is visible in the background. Legible signs include: "Venetian Villas, temporary construction".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographs
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