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Title: Buster Crabbe
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Crabbe was a winning olympian who competed in both 1928 (bronze medalist for the 1,500 metres freestyle) and 1932 (gold medalist for the 400 metres freestyle). In the 1950s, he was a popular film and television actor, who portrayed such characters as Tarzan and Buck Rogers.
Buster Crabbe poses in a LAAC (Los Angeles Athletic Club) swimming suit next to the silver trophy he won for the second annual one-mile rough-water swim held on May 10, 1930. The swim started in Santa Monica at the Deauville Beach Club and finished at the Sea Breeze Club. Photograph dated July 8, 1930.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00098646
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2276
CARL0005072776
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33719
Subject: Crabbe, Buster,--1908-1983
Crabbe, Buster,--1908-1983--Awards
Swimmers--Awards--United States
Swimmers--United States
Awards--California--Santa Monica
Swimming pools--California--Santa Monica
Olympic athletes--United States
Television actors and actresses--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1921-1930

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