Navigational Chart of the Dover Strait used by Mille Gade Corson
date: label: Date made
content: 1927-08-23
label: associated dates
content: 1927 04 23 / 1927 04 23
name: label: user
content: Corson, Amelia Gade
label: user
content: Corson, Mille Gade
label: maker
content: United States Navy
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Navigational chart of the Dover Strait or English Channel used by Mille Gade Corson to prepare for her English Channel swim. Corson's route and time are marked on it. Mille Gade Corson, the second woman to swim the English Channel, three weeks after Gertrude Ederle's record breaking Channel swim emigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1919 and became a Life Saving Instructor and Lifeguard at the Harlem branch of the YWCA. In 1921 she became the second woman to swim around Manhattan Island and attempted to swim the English Channel in 1923 but was forced to abandon the effort 2 miles from the French coast. After her successful 1926 swim Corson returned to the US to many accolades and performed on the vaudeville circuit as the first mother to swim the English Channel.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Swimming
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Esther Stoyanoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0729.10
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0729.10
label: accession number
content: 1981.0729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chart, Navigational
label: Object Name
content: navigational chart, swimming
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 28 in; 93.98 cm x 71.12 cm