• Title
  Series 10: Photographs of Dorothy Becker, 191-?
• Call number
  PXA 1359
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  191-?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  954382
• Physical Description
  6 photographs - various sizes - gelatin silver
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Dorothy Becker, a Californian woman, was a swimmer and one of the earliets female surfers. During the Great War she rode one of Duke Kahanamoku’s boards alone at Waikiki.
  
  Reference:
  Booth, Douglas, "From Bikinis to Boardshorts: Wahines and the Paradoxes of Surfing Culture", The Journal of Sport History 28, no. 1, 2001, pp. 3-22. The Journal of Sport History (online). http://www.journalofsporthistory.org/ (accessed 4 January 2012)
• Scope and Content
  Includes portraits of Dorothy Becker and photographs of her surfing.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1 / Becker, Dorothy, January 2012
• Date note
  
  Dated by cataloguer
• Name
  Becker, Dorothy
  
• Subject
  Surfing--Pictorial works.
  portrait photography
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  surfers
  surfing
  portraits
  
• Place
  Honolulu (Hawaii)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE10880061

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