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123 photos tagged olympics, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

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• The Library of Congress 51 photos
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 23 photos
• Navy Medicine 23 photos
• State Library of New South Wales 9 photos
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• Nationaal Archief 4 photos
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo
• National Library of Australia 1 photo
• Center for Jewish History, NYC 1 photo
• The National Archives UK 1 photo
• Smithsonian Institution 1 photo

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Turkse atleten bij OS Amsterdam 1928 / Turkish Olympic athletes, Amsterdam 1928

from Nationaal Archief

• caner said:

  Precious moment.

Francis C. Schroth (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Schroth "Frances Cowells Schroth (April 11, 1893 – October 6, 1961) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. She represented the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the gold medal as member of the first-place U.S. team in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, together with Margaret Woodbridge, Irene Guest and Ethelda Bleibtrey."

• Kristi (LOC P&P) said:

  swanq: Thanks for linking to more info on Schroth. We will add some of this to the description.

Anders Haugen (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• calm respect said:

  love the background on the photo and your new avatar !

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Haugen "Anders Olsen Haugen (October 24, 1888 – April 14, 1984) was an American ski jumper who won four national ski jumping championships. ... In 1919 and 1920, Anders Haugen set the World record ski jumping distances of 213 ft (64.92m) and 214 ft (65.23m), respectively. "

• B-59 said:

  The record jump took place on February 29, 1920 at Dillon, Montana, s. Albuquerque morning journal., March 01, 1920, CITY EDITION, Page 2, col. 4 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031081/1920-03-01/ed-..., s. also article in East Oregonian : E.O., March 17, 1920, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Page 4, col. 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88086023/1920-03-17/ed-...

• Art Siegel said:

  This one obviously taken indoors against a painted backdrop. Ribbon seems to say "1909"