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Mrs. Anna E. Van Skike, Worlds Champion woman long distance swimmer, Looff Pier, Santa Monica

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Title: Mrs. Anna E. Van Skike, Worlds Champion woman long distance swimmer, Looff Pier, Santa Monica
Creator: Thompson Photo Service (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1922
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of Anna E. Van Skike, a champion woman long-distance swimmer, standing on rocks on the beach in Santa Monica, California.
"Thompson Photo Venice, Cal."--text, embossed at lower right of item. "Mrs. Anna E. Van Skike, Looff Pier, Santa Monica, California, Worlds Champion woman long distance swimmer of sixty-one years of age."--text, printed on image. "August 23, 1922 - Swam from Venice breakwater to the end of the Santa Monica Municipal Pier where she dropped her feet to a standing posture in water seventy-five deep, and floating in that position standing in deep water sang 'The Holy City' and 'Star Spangled Banner' then made the return swim to Venice making a distance of six miles in just five hours"--text, printed on verso. Title and date transcribed from item.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 12.2 x 17.4 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19730
Subject: Bathing suits
Beaches
Swimmers
Ocean
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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