Advertisement for the Mille Gade Corson Swimming Girdle
date: label: date made
content: 1920s
name: label: depicted
content: Corson, Amelia Gade
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Advertisment for a swimming girdle endorsed by Mille Gade Corson, the first mother to swim the English Channel. The advertisement is white with a peach border and a black and white photograph of Corson wearing the swim girdle. 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
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Swimming
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Esther Stoyanoff
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0729.07
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0729.07
label: accession number
content: 1981.0729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Advertisement
label: Object Name
content: advertisement, swimming
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 3 1/2 in; 15.875 cm x 8.89 cm