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Swimmers. 14 Press Photos of Female Athletes, 1923-1930.
Black-and-white photos in a variety of formats marked up for publication, with overpainting in black and white featuring a list of prominent young swimmers, including the bravest girl in the world, Mary Buhner, who in 1923 attempted to save her friend after she was attacked by a shark or barracuda while they were swimming together a half mile offshore of land in Tampa Bay; Hawaiian-born 1924 Olymic gold medalist Mariechen Wehselau; Brooklyn-born Olympic gold medalist in the 1928 & 1932 games Eleanor Holm; New Zealand Olmpic contender Gwitha Shand; Eleanor Coleman, who broke the world record in the women's 200 meter breaststroke event at the 1924 Olympics, and later became a sports writer and radio host; surfing pioneer and competitive swimmer Dorothy Becker Lineer, who began surfing with Duke Kahanamoku in her teens, Becker is sometimes credited as the first woman surfer from the mainland United States, she brought the skills she learned in Hawaii back to Santa Cruz; Mercedes Gleitze, who was the first British woman to swim the English Channel; long distance swimmer Lottie Moore Schoemmell, who swam around Manhattan, from Albany, New York to Battery Park, and also swam across the Delaware, and set an endurance record swimming in a pool continuously for 72 hours; and others. (14)
