Swimming instruction at the Linden Center   Save
Ohio Guide Collection
Description: Reverse reads: "The swimming project, Linden Center, Dayton, Ohio. Life guards instructing in the way to break wrist holds. March 1936." This is a photograph of several men practicing breaking wrist holds at the Linden Center pool in Dayton, Ohio. These lessons were most likely a part of the Works Progress Administration, a project that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F02_027_001
Subjects: Swimming pools; Swimming; Lifeguards; Bathing suits; Self-defense; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)