Author: Conden, Corrine. Swimming champion who, at the age of 14, broke a world's record winning the national A.A.U. Junior 50 yard freestyle swim.
Title: A Vintage Magazine Photographic Portrait of the Young Swimming Champion Corrine Condon, Who Broke the World's Record by Winning the National A.A. U. Junior 50 Yard Freestyle Swim in 28 Seconds at the Age of 14.
Description: Argentina: El Grafico, [1928]. [1928]. - A 12-1/8 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide leaf from the Argentinian sports magazine "El Grafico", with a full-page illustration of the young swimming champion Corinne Conden portrayed in profile. Attired in a one-piece swimsuit, the young swimmer poses with one hand on her hip as the other reaches out. The corners are slightly creased and there are stab-marks along the page's right edge and a short tear to the bottom edge. A color illustration of the Real Club Celta soccer team is pictured on the verso. Good. Corrine Condon and her sister Helen were swimming champions of the Nicholas Senn hospital in Omaha. In March of 1925, the 14 year old Corinne broke a world's record by winning the A.A.U. Junior 50 yard free style swim in 28 seconds. Founded by Constancio Vigil in 1919, "El Grafico" was an Argentine sports magazine which started as a weekly newspaper before subsequently turning exclusively to the coverage of sports. One of the most highly regarded sports magazines in Latin America, it came to earn the nickname "La Biblia de deporte" ("The Bible of sports"). Good .

Keywords: SPORTS; SWIMMING; SWIMMER; ILLUSTRATION; MAGAZINE; PERIODICAL; CORINNE CONDON; NICHOLAS SENN HOSPITAL; OMAHA; NATIONAL A.A.U. JUNIOR 50 YARD FREE STYLE SWIM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; EL GRAFICO; ARGENTINE; ARGENTINA; AIRPLANE; EL GRAFICO.


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