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41 photos and 10 illustrations tagged skis, from 15 members of Flickr Commons.

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• skiing
• winter
• snow
• mountains
• publicdomain
• canada
• alberta
• bldigital
• rockymountains
• banffnationalpark
• banff
• skier
• sherlocknet:category=organism
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• mechanicalcurator
• vol0
• medium
• women
• aviation
• sherlocknet:tag=beauty
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• pubplacelondon
• vol01
• sherlocknet:tag=place

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• Provincial Archives of Alberta 17 photos & illustrations
• British Library 8 photos & illustrations
• University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections 6 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 5 photos & illustrations
• Preus museum 2 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 2 photos & illustrations
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 2 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• George Eastman Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration

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The start of girls' snowshoe race, Kiandra

from Powerhouse Museum

• 64 older comments, and then…
• Adrian Midgley said:

  But these are skis.

• damph said:

  I like how clearly sunburnt they are - ah, the days before sunburn cream.

• Ian Sanderson said:

  Adrian Midgley The oldest (or second oldest) ski club in the world was started in Kiandra, Australia. It still exists as the Kiandra Pioneers Ski Club but its original name was the Kiandra Snowshoe Club. Skis were called snowshoes in Australia in those days.

• br@mbly said:

  The two at either end are clearly sisters.

• The Big Sister said:

  My, how skiing equipment has changed! these girls are in ordinary winter clothing and must have been pretty hardy!

Axel Hendrickson (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  Professional ski rider from Blair, Wisconsin. His speciality was a somersault in the air, see The Virginia enterprise., March 06, 1914, Image 6., col. 6 "HENDRICKSON HAS NEW STUNT" In 1913 he was photographed somersaulting off a jump in Duluth - the earliest known photo of a ski stunt in America (according to Skiing Heritage Journal, March 1998)

Russie

from George Eastman Museum

• Alex Edgar said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Black and White [AllEdges], and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• retrofuturs Stéphane Massa-Bidal said:

  I like It You can found it in : www.flickr.com/photos/hulk4598/3119271144/

• Copper Kettle said:

  Upped to Wiki: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russie.jpg By the way, the boots he is wearing are called Valenki