Image / Gertrude Ederle, Aileen Riggin, and Helen Wainwright, Los Angeles, circa 1926(?)

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Title: Gertrude Ederle, Aileen Riggin, and Helen Wainwright, Los Angeles, circa 1926(?)
Date Created and/or Issued: [December 1926(?)]
1926-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: A group portrait photograph of Gertrude Ederle (center), Aileen Riggin (left), and Helen Wainwright (right), champion Olympic swimmers. The photograph may have been taken inside a hotel room or a dressing room in the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. Possibly related to the article, "TRUDY OUT OF BIG SWIM: Miss Ederle Will Not Be Able to Make Attempt for Catalina Channel Prize," Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 1926: B2.
Handwritten on negative: Wainwright [other 2 names illegible]
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3710_G2413
ark:/21198/z19m045s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
Riggin, Aileen, 1906-2002
Ederle, Gertrude, 1906-2003
Wainwright, Helen E., 1906-1965
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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