Names: Wrigley, William, 1861-1932 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Calvin Coolidge (light colored suit), Grace Coolidge (?) light colored dress, William Wrigley (right of Calvin Coolidge) and others at the estate of William Wrigley on Santa Catalina Island overlooking Avalon Bay (398 Wrigley Rd., Avalon).
Date:: February 20-21, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Calvin Coolidge (left) and William Wrigley shake hands at Wrigley's Santa Catalina Island home (398 Wrigley Rd., Avalon) during the visit of President and Mrs. Coolidge to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
Date:: February 20-21, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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.
Date:: January 17, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Reported in "Jack Lelivelt to Join Angel Forces Today," Los Angeles Times, 12 Jul. 1929: B1.
Date:: July 11, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of George Young, winner of the Wrigley Ocean Marathon, receiving a check for $25,000 from William Wrigley, Jr. (left, in hat) as Sid Grauman looks on (right). A photographer is in the foreground (left).
Date:: January 17, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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