Program for a Theater Performance by Mille Gade Corson: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program for a Theater Performance by Mille Gade Corson: date made: ca 1926. depicted: Corson, Amelia Gade. Object Name: Program.
The object in the museum catalogue
Program for an appearance by Mille Gade Corson, the first mother to swim the English Channel, at the New Palace Theatre. The program is white with a black and white photograph of Corson on the front.
Mille Gade Corson, the second woman to swim the English Channel, three weeks after Gertrude Ederle's record breaking Channel swim emigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1919 and became a Life Saving Instructor and Lifeguard at the Harlem branch of the YWCA. In 1921 she became the second woman to swim around Manhattan Island and attempted to swim the English Channel in 1923 but was forced to abandon the effort 2 miles from the French coast. After her successful 1926 swim Corson returned to the US to many accolades and performed on the vaudeville circuit as the first mother to swim the English Channel.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1926
- depicted: Corson, Amelia Gade
- Object Name: Program
- Object Name: program
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 9 in x 6 in; 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm
- web subject: Sports
- name of sport: Swimming
- level of sport: Amateur
- web subject: Women
- ID Number: 1981.0729.06
- catalog number: 1981.0729.06
- accession number: 1981.0729
- Credit Line: Gift of Esther Stoyanoff
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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