A resume of the life of Annette Kellerman [manuscript]. 1977.

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A resume of the life of Annette Kellerman [manuscript]. 1977.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505781311

Handwritten. Includes some typescript notes, and a letter to Buck Dawson, Executive Director of International Swimming Hall of Fame, June 1977. All photocopies.

[29] leaves ; 36 cm.

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Kellermann, Annette, 1886-1975.

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Swimmer, vaudeville performer, actor, lecturer on health, fitness and beauty, and author. Sydney born Annette Kellermann swam as a child to strengthen her weak, bowed legs, later becoming famous in Australia and overseas for her marathon swimming, diving and underwater swimming performances. She is credited with starting what is now known as synchronised swimming. In the early 1900's she was arrested for 'indecent exposure' in Boston for wearing her one-piece bathing suit. Kellerman wrote Swimmi...

Wooster, Marcelle.

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Annette Kellermann was born in 1886 in Sydney, daughter of Australian violinist Frederick Kellermann and French pianist Alice Charbonnet. As a schoolgirl she gave exhibitions of swimming and diving. In 1905 she went to England, three times attempting to swim the English Channel, as well as making long distance swims in the Thames and Danube. In 1906 she went to the USA where she performed a vaudeville aquatic act. In 1907 she was arrested for wearing a one-piece bathing suit on a Bo...