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In addition to the resources and links suggested below, it might be helpful to look at the manuscript papers of athletes and coaches. You can locate a person's or group's papers by searching a union catalog such as ArchiveGrid External and then follow links to a specific institution or agency with the collection material.

Other Library of Congress Reading Rooms have collection materials pertaining to the Olympic Games, as described below.

Olympic-related materials in Finding Aids from the Manuscript Division
Many collections in the Manuscript Division include materials pertaining to the Olympic Games. Such collections include: the Jackie Robinson papers, the NAACP papers, and the Thurgood Marshall papers.
Olympic blog posts on Picture This
This search will return blog posts highlighting visual materials in the Prints & Photographs Division.
Olympic collection items from Folklife Today blog posts
This search will return blog posts highlighting collection materials of Olympic Athletes featured in the American Folklife Center.
Olympics: Topics in Chronicling America
A Research Guide about exploring coverage of the Olympics in the historical newspaper database Chronicling America.
Olympics commercials from the Coca-Cola Advertising Collection
A Research Guide exploring the collections of the Moving Image Research Center highlights the Coca-Cola Advertising Collection and its Olympic commercials.

You can learn more about visual materials at other institutions that are strong in Olympic coverage by following the links below.

LA84 External
The Digital Library Collections from LA84 Foundation featuring reports, oral histories, articles on sport and Olympic Games history.
Olympic World Library External
Discover collections from the Olympic Studies Centre
National Portrait Gallery External
Collection items of United States Olympians
Best in the World: Native Athletes in the Olympics External
From the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, this 2012 exhibition celebrates Native American Indians competing in the Olympics, including Jim Thorpe. Selected visuals from the exhibition can be viewed in this Flickr album.
Crawford Family U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Archives External
Vast holdings of manuscript materials, photographs, and artifacts related to the Olympics and Paralympics. Website includes virtual exhibits.
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum External
Museum includes artifacts, manuscripts, photographs, film/video, and audio; as well as digital exhibitions.
Olympic Museum Network External
Listing of Olympic Museums recognized by the International Olympic Committee.

The following publications make strong use of Library of Congress resources on the subject of the Olympic Games. Some titles can be found in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room. The titles listed below link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

A Century of Olympic Posters by Margaret Timmers
Call Number: NC1872 .P76 2010
ISBN: 9781851775385
Published/Created: 2008-06-01
From the first official poster for Stockholm in 1912 to the Bejiing Games in 2008, Timmers shows the evolution of the Olympic Games poster, both Summer and Winter games.
L'Olympisme par l'affiche : 1896-1984 = Olympism through posters : 1896-1984. by Lausanne, Suisse: Comité international olympique.
Call Number: GV721.75 .O48 1983
Published/Created: 1983
With descriptions in English and French, this book looks at Olympic posters (summer/winter) from 1896-1984. The copy in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room has annotations for online images and records.
The Olympics at 100: A Celebration in Pictures by Associated Press Staff; Larry Siddons (Text by)
Call Number: GV721.5 .S53 1995
ISBN: 002860346X
Published/Created: 1995-09-01
This is a celebration of the Atlanta Summer Olympics and the Olympics' 100th anniversary. It documents the history of the games and includes various Olympic athletes through the years.

Olympic Games: Finding Pictures in the Prints & Photographs Division

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