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
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mariechen Wehselau, standing on the roof of a building wearing her swimsuit. Wehselau was in Los Angeles for exhibition swims en route to the Olympic tryouts in New York on June 7-8. Mariechen M. Wehselau (later Jackson) was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event and silver medal in the 100 m freestyle event. Handwritten on negative: Mariechen Wehselau Text from negative sleeve: Wehselan, Mariechen, swimmer, 1924
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4301 ark:/21198/zz002cq2pc
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Sports People Swimmers--California--Los Angeles Olympic Games (8th : 1924 : Paris, France) Wehselau, Mariechen M., 1906-1992
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