Clipping from the 'Tribune' about Bunny Fergus, c. 1920s

Publication

Alameda Museum & Meyers House and Gardens

Name/Title

Clipping from the 'Tribune' about Bunny Fergus, c. 1920s

Entry/Object ID

2009.75.22

Description

ACC. NO. 09.75.22 SUBJECT CATEGORY: SPORTS, SWIMMING DATE OR PERIOD: CIRCA 1920's OBJECT: ILLUSTRATION DESCRIPTION: A BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION REMOVED FROM A PUBLICATION. SIZE: L 3-3/4" X W 4-1/4" HISTORY OF OBJECT: AN ILLUSTRATION REMOVED FROM THE "TRIBUNE" NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION, CONCERNING BUNNY FERGUS, CHAMPION ALAMEDA SWIMMER. DONOR: MR CHARLES RUSS CATALOGED: DECEMBER 5, 2009

Interpretative Labels

Label

9/12/2021 MvL: clipping has the text ‘bune’, presumably the (Oakland?) Tribune, and in a circle the text: ‘One and a half’; presumably because bunny did a one and/a-half turn somersault dive. Verso states (in handwriting of curator G.G.) ‘Bunny Ferguson champion swimmer, Alameda’.