Nurmi still setting worlds records : beats Shrubb's old mark for six mile run – Antique Wall Art
![Nurmi still setting worlds records : beats Shrubb's old mark for six mile run, [between 1920 and 1940] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/07/07e8f464613c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Nurmi still setting worlds records : beats Shrubb's old mark for six mile run, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Nurmi still setting worlds records : beats Shrubb's old mark for six mile run
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Paavo Nurmi, the Finnish distance runner nicknamed the "Flying Finn," is the subject here, and the headline announces that he has beaten the six-mile mark once held by Alfred Shrubb, an English runner who dominated long-distance racing in the early 1900s. Nurmi won several Olympic gold medals in the 1920s and kept lowering world marks throughout that decade, which made him one of the most admired athletes of his era. Pictures like this one show how closely the press followed his races and how quickly the records of the period fell.
| Created / published | [between 1920 and 1940] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1920-1940.Photographic prints 1920-1940. |
| Notes | No. S/17691x35. |
| Subjects | Nurmi, Paavo,--1897-1973. Running races--England--London--1920-1940. Track and field--England--London--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,267 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-195760 |
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