George Young brought ashore after swimming across Catalina Channel at Point Vicente, Los Angeles, 1927
Item Overview
- Title
- George Young brought ashore after swimming across Catalina Channel at Point Vicente, Los Angeles, 1927
- Date Created
- January 16, 1927
- Date
- 1927-01-16
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Spectators watch as George Young is brought ashore. His trainer, Henry O’Byrne, stands at the far left.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “George young Conquers Channel in Prize Race; Two Girls Get Awards,” Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan 1927: 1.
George Young, 17-year-old swimmer from Toronto, won the Wrigley Ocean Marathon swim from Catalina Island to Point Vicente, along the California coast. The 22 mile swim took him 15 hours and 44 minutes and earned him a $25,000 prize. Margaret C. Hauser of Long Beach and Martha Stager of Portland, Oregon also swam the marathon but did not finish.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Young, George, 1910-1972
O'Byrne, Henry - Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Swimmers--California
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_2631
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dcf8d
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .