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Title: Byron Summers, competitor in the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1927
1927-01
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) 825-2155
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Byron Summers, competitor in the January marathon Catalina Channel swim, had to stop his swim when overcome by a leg cramp. He won the marathon swim the following April.
Handwritten on negative: Byron Summers
Text from newspaper caption: Byron Summers
Text from negative sleeve: Summers, Byron. Swimmer, 1927
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3168
ark:/21198/zz002cn1w3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
People
Sports
Long distance swimming--California--Santa Catalina Island Region
Wrigley Ocean Marathon
Summers, Byron
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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