Boats in Isthmus Cove on the day of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, Santa Catalina Island, 1927

Title: Boats in Isthmus Cove on the day of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, Santa Catalina Island, 1927
Date Created: January 15, 1927
Date: 1926-01-15
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: View of boats in Isthmus Cove on the day of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon. The boats, carrying swim coaches and observers, followed the marathon swimmers. The registration numbers assigned to the swimmers are posted on the boats. The foreground boat carries the placard for swimmer number 3 (Tony Ajax, 4027 E. 14th Street, Long Beach, Calif.) and the boat on the left for no. 15 (Jack Craig, 20 Avenue 19, Venice, Calif.).
The swimmers are identified, with with their registration numbers and home addresses, in The Catalina Islander, 12 Jan. 1927: 5.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Catalina Channel Swim, 1927

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Longitude: 33.442149
Latitude: -118.497784
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Isthmus Cove (Santa Catalina Island)
Boats--American--California--Santa Catalina Island
Wrigley Ocean Marathon

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1527
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dc0sw
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