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Helene Madison and two men near car in front of Eldridge Buick, Pike Street, Seattle, September 1932
Helene Emma Madison (1913-1970) began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison…
ID Number:1970.5051.76
Date:1932
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Helene Madison McGiver with teacher and students at Lincoln High School, Seattle, February 1952
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.83
Date:1952
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Helene Madison's American record certificate, September 12, 1931
Helene Emma Madison started swimming at Green Lake in Seattle when she was 12 years old. At 19, she swept the women's freestyle swimming events in the 1932 Olympics. That year, she held all 16 women's world freestyle records, 56 American awards, and was the first woman to swim the 100-yard freestyle in one minute flat. Unfortunately she was unable…
ID Number:1970.5051.95.2
Date:1931
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Helene Madison's Olympic tryouts certificate, 1932
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.103.1
Date:1932
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Helene Madison and Ray Daughters at train, circa 1929
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.1
Date:Circa 1929
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Helene Madison waving from train steps, circa 1929
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.2
Date:Circa 1929
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Studio photo of Helene Madison in swimsuit, circa 1929
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.3
Date:Circa 1929
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Swimming coach Ray Daughters in swimsuit, circa 1929
Ray Daughters was a swim instructor at the Crystal Natatorium in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, and later at the Washington Athletic Club, where Daughters worked after the facility opened in 1930. Daughters’ two most famous swimmers were Seattleites Helene Madison and Jack Medica, the USA’s top freestylers in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics respectively. This photo is from a scrapbook of…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.4
Date:Circa 1929
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Helene Madison sitting with coach Ray Daughters and her mother at the Moore Hotel pool, circa 1929
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.110.5
Date:Circa 1929
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Helene Madison's freestyle world record medallion, 1931
Helene Madison began swimming in early childhood, first at Green Lake, one block from her home in Seattle, and later in Seattle Parks Department swim programs. Catching the eye of local coach Ray Daughters in 1928, Madison began swimming competitively on his team at the Crystal Pool, and later at Washington Athletic Club. Between 1930 and 1932, Madison broke all…
ID Number:1970.5051.114.1
Date:1931