Images from SPLASH! Women’s Swimming-Lib 1914-Style

Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!

From Chapter 10: “An Aussie Wrecking Ball Goes Rogue.”
Women’s swimming-lib, 1914-style: The suits were inspired by Annette Kellerman, and there’s not a matron in sight at the start of this open-water race in Sheepshead Bay, off the south end of Brooklyn, New York.

 

 


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