Posts Tagged ‘Annette Kellerman’

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.

 

 

Images from SPLASH! Annette Kellerman

Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!

From Chapter 10: “An Aussie Wrecking Ball Goes Rogue.”
No one did more than Annette Kellerman to change the social history of swimming. In 1910, the head of Harvard’s Hemenway Gymnasium declared Kellerman the “most beautifully formed woman of modern times.”

 

 

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