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Title: Seeks record
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated May 30, 1956 reads "Johnny Rackin, 12, of the Kris Kristenson Swim School will seek another national record, this time in the 50-yard free style, when the first annual Encino Swim School swimming meet is held June 9 and 10. The present mark is 26.5 seconds. He already has set a national 100-yard free style mark of 58.4s. Those 'earrings' Johnny is wearing are the water dripping of [sic] his ears."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00162124
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d064_f30_i11
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/132290
Subject: Rackin, Johnny
Kris Kristenson Swim School (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Students
Swimmers
Boys
Swimming
Swimming pools
Encino (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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