Farid Simaika, Olympic diver, in straight position during the flight of a dive, between 1928-1939
Item Overview
- Title
- Farid Simaika, Olympic diver, in straight position during the flight of a dive, between 1928-1939
- Date Created
- [between 1928-1939]
- Date
- 1928/1939
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Farid Simaika, Olympic diver, in a straight position during the flight of a dive with his arms outstretched
Farid Simaika was an Olympic diver who was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He won a silver medal for platform diving at the 1928 Olympics. Later he performed in the Billy Rose Aquacades and was a stunt double in the 1931 film Seas Beneath.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Simaika, Farid, 1907-1944
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Divers
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_11521
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9kdr
- 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
- 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 .