People in the swimming pool at Municipal Plunge by "Dick" Whittington, ca.1930

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Photograph of people in the swimming pool at Municipal Plunge by "Dick" Whittington, ca.1930. Swimmers frolic in the swimming pool water, their heads poking out of the still depths, others submerged from the torso down. Up on the pavement to the right of the pool, others sit and watch the scene before them and one female swimmer stands beside a small diving board at the poolside. Behind the spectators to the right stands a whitewashed structure bearing the name "Municipal Plunge". The foreground is framed to the right by a large tree, beneath which one can see another structure marked "[...]afe" ["café"?]. To the left of the foreground is an assortment of foliage. The pool is surrounded by a wire fence, and to the leftmost end one can see another house-like structure. Behind this are the tops of trees and the lines from utility poles. In the distance a hillside can be vaguely made out. Writing at the back of the photo print states that this is a "typical Los Angeles municipal swimming pool, one of the sixteen operated for the use of Los Angeles families by the city's playground and recreation department".

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Title People in the swimming pool at Municipal Plunge by "Dick" Whittington, ca.1930

Subject Municipal Plunge (subject), Recreation -- Swimming and Diving (file heading), recreational facilities (adlf), Swimming (lcsh), Swimming pools (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 17 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1930

Creator Whittington, Dick (photographer)

Contributor Dick Whittington Photography (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11577

Identifier 42912 (accession number), CHS-42912 (call number), CHS-42912 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10997 (legacy record id), chs-m11577 (legacy record id), USC-3-1-1-11727 (legacy record id), 84-1-1592 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10997

Unique identifier UC118388

Legacy Identifier CHS-42912.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 14.0 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 35.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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