Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922

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Title: Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922
Creator: Photographer unknown
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Historical, Sport, Recreation, Swimming
Description: Competitors in the Gordons Gala in Cape Town in 1922 had a tough venue for their races: the old Cape Town pier, where this picture was taken of the mens' two-mile event. [The photograph is one of several appearing on special sepia pages of the prestige 56-page Cape Times Centenary Supplement, which appears as an extra section with all copies of the Cape Times on Saturday, March 27.]
Publisher: University of Cape Town. Libraries
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Format: black-and-white-photographs, Still image, Image/jpeg
Identifier: islandora:17185
Source: va_independent_S5F_074.jpg, S5F Cape Town Historical
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