Image / Aileen Riggin on board the S.S. Van Buren, San Pedro, 1930

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Title: Aileen Riggin on board the S.S. Van Buren, San Pedro, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1930
1930-03
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.
Aileen Riggin, the young woman who won an Olympic championship for the United States diving team in 1920 at the age of 14, is stopping briefly in Los Angeles as she sails around the world on board the steamship President Van Buren of the Dollar Line.
A smiling Aileen sits on top of a crate on board of a ship.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Olympic Star in Visit Here," Los Angeles Times, 03 Mar 1930: 9.
Handwritten on negative: Aileen Riggin - diver
Text from negative sleeve: RIGGIN, AILEEN SWIMMER, 1933
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11361
ark:/21198/zz002h9cw3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ships--American--California--Los Angeles
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
Riggin, Aileen, 1906-2002
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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