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[Olympic medal winners in women's foil fencing: Ilona Elek-Schacherer (Hungary); 2nd - Helene Mayer (Germany); 3rd - Ellen Preis (Austria)] – Vintage Print

[Olympic medal winners in women's foil fencing: Ilona Elek-Schacherer (Hungary); 2nd - Helene Mayer (Germany); 3rd - Ellen Preis (Austria)] — historic print
[Olympic medal winners in women's foil fencing: Ilona Elek-Schacherer (Hungary); 2nd - Helene Mayer (Germany); 3rd - Ellen Preis (Austria)]. Historic print 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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This rare historic print captures [Olympic medal winners in women's foil fencing: Ilona Elek-Schacherer (Hungary); 2nd - Helene Mayer (Germany); 3rd - Ellen Preis (Austria)] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Olympic medal winners in women's foil fencing: Ilona Elek-Schacherer (Hungary); 2nd - Helene Mayer (Germany); 3rd - Ellen Preis (Austria)]

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This print names the three medalists in the women's foil event at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Ilona Elek of Hungary, who took gold, Helene Mayer of Germany, who took silver, and Ellen Preis of Austria, who took bronze. Mayer's presence drew particular attention, since she was a German fencer of Jewish descent competing under a Nazi government that excluded Jewish citizens from much of public life, and she had already won Olympic foil gold in 1928. The Berlin Games were staged by that government as a showcase of national prestige, which gives this record a charged context beyond the sport itself.

Medium1 print.
Notes1936
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,161 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123087

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