“A black and white photograph depicts two women shaking hands: one, the swimmer Lillian Cannon, appears in profile – she has a messy bobbed haircut and wears a very utilitarian looking long sleeved garment with a bulging front pocket. She is smiling. The other woman, Gertrude Ederle is wearing a one-piece swimsuit, a swimcap, and unusual goggles: they are shaped like ski or welder’s goggles, with a single, almost square, black lens stretching across both the wearer’s face. She has a wide, open mouthed grin, and looks toward the horizon/camera, and not at Cannon. Her entire body is coated in a thick white, messily applied paste or grease. Behind Cannon and Ederle are a group of people, mostly men, in suits, jackets and caps. The background is hazy and indecipherable.” -Blair Fornwald