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Olympic Games: Finding Pictures in the Prints & Photographs Division

Sample Images

See below for sample images representing many facets of the Olympic Games from the collections. The following categories can help you narrow your searching for relevant materials.

Olympic Scenes

Jesse Owens running

Jesse Owens. 1936. LOT 2731. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Poster of a bobsled run at Lake Placid during the Winter Olympics

NYC: Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project. Olympic bobsled run, Lake Placid. [between 1936 and 1938]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Miss Catherwood of Canada doing the high jump in the Olympic Games at Amsterdam.

Miss Catherwood of Canada doing the high jump in the Olympic Games at Amsterdam. 1928. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Photo shows (left to right) Prince Wilhelm of Sweden and Norway (1884-1965), Duke of Sd̐ermanland; Crown Prince Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973) with their father King Gustav V at the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.

Bain News Service. Prince William - Crown Prince, King Sweden at Olympic Games. 1912. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Frank C. Irons performing a broad jump

American Tobacco Co.Frank C. Irons. 1910 From Card set: Champion Athletes and Prizefighters (T218). Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.

Man working in a television production booth, looking at various screens with a boxer's arms raised.

Warren K. Leffler, photographer. TV monitor at WRC-TV 1964 summer Olympics from Tokyo. 1964. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Olympic Athletes

Team photo of the 1920 American Olympic Hockey team.

Tri-State News Bureau.The First American Olympic hockey team. 1920. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Three Olympic swimmers at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.

Bain News Service. Olympic swimmers. 1912. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Image of Muhammad Ali

Bernard Gotfryd, photographer. Muhammad Ali. ca 1975. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Jim Thorpe greeted by Mayor Gaynor during the Olympic ceremony in New York City.

Jim Thorpe greeted by Mayor Gaynor and other dignitaries in Olympic ceremony at City Hall. 1912. From the New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Japanese athletes in the 1920 Olympic Games

Bain News Service. Japanese athletes. 1920. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

American boxer Oliver Kirk in a boxing stance

Bain News Service. Oliver Kirk, American boxer and two-time Olympic gold medal winner. [between 1910 and 1915]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Olympic Stadiums

General view of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium on the opening day of the Games of the Xth Olympiad, while contenders from all nations take the Olympic Athlete's Oath

Organizing Committee of the Games. General view of Los Angeles Olympic Stadium on the opening day of the Xth Olympiad, while contenders take the Olympic Athlete's Oath. 1932. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Carol M. Highsmith, photographer. Sign at the Village of Squaw Valley, west of Tahoe City, California. 2012. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Parade of Turners at the opening of a Berlin Stadium erected for the 1916 Olympics, which were canceled.

Bain News Service. Parade of Turners at opening Berlin Stadium. 1913. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Image of cyclists on the olympic bicycle track at Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California

Positive Image Photographic Services. Olympic Bicycle track, view South - Rose Bowl Stadium. 1996. From the Historic American Buildings Survey Collection. HABS CAL,19-PASA,14--143. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Before and After the Olympics

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt giving a contribution to the Women's Olympic Fund for the Finland Olympic Games.

Harris & Ewing, photographer. First Lady makes first contribution to Women's Olympic Fund being collected to send teams to Finland. 1939. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

President Theodore Roosevelt with U.S. Olympic team members

President Theodore Roosevelt standing with members of the U.S. Olympic team. 1908. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Athlete Duke Kahanamoku in an Olympic parade

Bain News Service. Kahanamoku in Olympic parade. [between 1915 and 1920]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Statue of Olympic hurdler George Coleman Poage, in Poage Park, La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Carol M. Highsmith, 2016. Statue of Olympic hurdler George Coleman Poage, in Poage Park, La Crosse, Wisconsin. 2016. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Aileen Riggin diving during the aquatic carnival at the Huguenot Boat Club, New Rochelle, New York.

Aileen Riggin, Olympic diving champ, at aquatic carnival of the Huguenot Boat Club. 1922. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Image of an Olympic team at a sendoff for the Stockholm Games.

Bain News Service. Send off of Olympic Athletes. 1912. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.