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| Title | Olympic diving medalist Georgia Coleman, probably in Seattle, 1932 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1932 |
| Caption | Georgia Coleman won two medals in the 1928 Olympics only six months after learning to dive. Earning more medals in national championships in springboard and platform, she went on to win two more medals, a gold and a silver, in the 1932 Olympics. After contracting polio in 1937, she learned to swim again, however, developed pneumonia and died at age twenty-eight.
In this 1932 photograph, Coleman is posing in front of an aircraft, likely during a visit to Seattle. It appears that she is wearing one of her many medals around her neck but tucked inside her coat. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Georgia Coleman.
Caption information sources: HickokSports.com.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): July 16, 1932. |
| Subjects | Diving--Washington (State)--Seattle; Medals--Washington (State)--Seattle; Airplane propellers--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Coleman, Georgia |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5G.335.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
