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Athletes' entrance E. to stadion [stadium] - Olympia, Greece – Vintage Print

Athletes' entrance E. to stadion [stadium] - Olympia, Greece, c1907 Jan. 31. — historic photograph
Athletes' entrance E. to stadion [stadium] - Olympia, Greece, c1907 Jan. 31.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 Athletes' entrance E. to stadion [stadium] - Olympia, Greece, 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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This stereograph shows the athletes' entrance at the ancient stadium at Olympia, the sanctuary in the western Peloponnese where Greek city-states held athletic contests from 776 BCE until the games were ended in the late fourth century CE. By the time this card was made around 1907, excavations of the site, carried out by German archaeologists from the 1870s, had uncovered the stadium's stone-lined passages and track, and interest in the site had grown. Underwood & Underwood, a firm that sold stereo views to American households, issued many such cards of European and Mediterranean landmarks, and the revival of the modern Olympics in Athens in 1896 and 1906 helped draw attention to this ancient site.

Created / publishedc1907 Jan. 31.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsH89910 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. (74) 9337. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Stadiums--Greece--Olympia--1907; Greece--Olympia; Photog. I.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,379 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140487

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