cover image: Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922

Swimming race from the Cape Town pier, 1922

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Competitors in the Gordons Gala in Cape Town in 1922 had a tough venue for their races: the old Cape Town pier, where this picture was taken of the mens' two-mile event. [The photograph is one of several appearing on special sepia pages of the prestige 56-page Cape Times Centenary Supplement, which appears as an extra section with all copies of the Cape Times on Saturday, March 27.]
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Format
black-and-white-photographs
Published in
South Africa
Series
Independent Newspapers Archive

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