Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
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11 images. Kids swimming class, Pasadena (at the home of Mrs. Trever Cardner, 1324 North sierra Madre Villa Avenue), 28 May 1952. L.V. Bud Lynden, instructor Bobby Briarley, 7 Billy Nation, 7 Judy Ong, 6 Janice McCann, 7 Cornelia Foster, 14 months Carol Grizzle, 7. Caption slip reads: "San Gabriel Valley Pictorial. Photographer: Mercurio, Reporter: Ostler. Assignment: Kids swimming class, Pasadena. 1: Gen. view of youngsters in pool receiving arm stroke exercises by Instructor L.V. Bud Lyndon. 206: Bobby Brierley, 7, Pasadena, attempts dive from board. 205A: Seven-year-old Billy Nation of Pasadena, not exactly an expert at the swan dive, demonstrates the old college try from diving board. 159: Action pix. of beginner Judy Ong, 6, of Pasadena, swimming across pool. 158: Action pix. of Bobby Brierly, 7, also of Pasadena, swimming across pool. The youngsters, under the expert instruction of L.V. Bud Lynden, Swimming Coach for the Pasadena Athletic Club, learn to swim after as few as four lessons. 60-61: In pix. is part of swimming class for five and six-year-olds doing leg and kick exercises on edge of pool. Swimming classes are held atthe private residence of Mrs. Trevor Gardner, 1324 North Sierra Madre Villa Ave. Mrs. Gardner has donated the pool so that youngsters in the neighborhood might learn to swim. [continued on next page]. Caption slip continues: 113: Janice McCann, 7, of Pasadena, demonstrates he 'special' dive off board. She, having mastered the initial steps in learning how to swim, is not learning how to dive. 150-151: Cornelia Foster, 14 months, of Pasadena, is seen in arms of instructor L.V. Bud Lynden receiving kicking instructions. Youngsters in the swimming class range in age from 14 months to 17 years. Instruction is given twice weekly. 112: Four youngsters can be seen swimming acress pool under the watchful eye of Instructor L.V. Bud Lynden, swimming coach at the Pasadena Athletic Club. 2: Seven-year-old Carol Grizzle of Pasadena, one of 64 youngsters in the neighborhood swimming class, braves the width of the pool with the security of a rubber inner-tube around her body".
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image
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11 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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