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Peggy Bacon in mid-air backflip, Bondi Beach, Sydney, 6/2/1937 / by Ted Hood

Format: Film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative)

 

Sydney Exposures book and exhibtion caption: Back flip on the beach, Bondi, 6 February 1937 : Peggy Bacon of Bondi, one of a troupe of girls who did pyramid stands on the beach, does a backflip for the photographer.

Friend of Ted Hood, Di Taylor (not pictured here) was also one of the group who formed athletic "pyramids" supported by North Bondi life savers.

 

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Uploaded on December 1, 2008
Taken on February 6, 1937