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[Pepi Schultz, 19 years old, the German National All-Around Champion in 1928, seated in and rubbing her legs with snow, Chicago, Ill.] – Historic Reproduction

[Pepi Schultz, 19 years old, the German National All-Around Champion in 1928, seated in and rubbing her legs with snow, Chicago, Ill.] — historic photograph
[Pepi Schultz, 19 years old, the German National All-Around Champion in 1928, seated in and rubbing her legs with snow, Chicago, Ill.]. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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A window into the past: [Pepi Schultz, 19 years old, the German National All-Around Champion in 1928, seated in and rubbing her legs with snow, Chicago, Ill.], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Pepi Schultz, 19 years old, the German National All-Around Champion in 1928, seated in and rubbing her legs with snow, Chicago, Ill.]

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Pepi Schultz, a 19-year-old from Germany, sits in a snowbank in Chicago and rubs her legs with handfuls of snow, a pose that stands out from the usual posed portraits of athletes from the period. The record identifies her as the German National All-Around Champion of 1928, a title that tied her to the country's competitive women's gymnastics scene of the late 1920s. Cold-water and snow treatments were common among athletes of the time who believed in toughening the body and improving circulation. The picture captures a moment of winter training or recovery in an American city far from home.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1928
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,267 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137292

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