Image / Swimming mermaid Marion Himmelstein preparing to dive, Los Angeles, 1925

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Title: Swimming mermaid Marion Himmelstein preparing to dive, Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1925
1925-08
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This is a photograph of young swimmer Marion Himmelstein (later, Marion Ferguson), considered as one of the best girl swimmers to be trained in Southern California. During the time of this photograph, she belonged to the Club Casa Del Mar. In the picture, Marion is smiling into the camera, preparing to dive off a board into the pool below.
A version of this photograph can be found as part of a photo stand-alone collage: Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug 1925.
Text on nitrate sleeve: Himmelstein, Marion; Swimmer
Handwritten on negative: [to the left of the image] Marion Himmelstein
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9519
ark:/21198/zz002dhm31
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
Ferguson, Marion Himmelstein, 1905-1993
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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