Archibald and von Puttkammer Fencing Foil

Item

Title

Archibald and von Puttkammer Fencing Foil

Subject

Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)

Foil Fencing

Description

Nancy Archibald (Canada; pictured at left) fencing Hilda von Puttkammer (Brazil) in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Olympic Games held inside the Haus des Deutschen Sports in Berlin.

Starting from position three, the left-side scoreboard lists competitors (from top to bottom): ???, Berit Granquist (Sweden), Helene Mayer (Germany), Hilda von Puttkammer (Brazil), and Adèle Christiaens (Belgium).

Starting from position two, the right-side scoreboard lists competitors (from top to bottom) Ulla Barding-Poulsen (Denmark), Hedwig Wilhelmine Haß (Germany), Aileen Thomas (Canada), Suat Fetgeri Aşeni Tarı (Turkey), Ingeborg Scheel (Switzerland), and Thea Kellner (Romania).

Caption on reverse:
"Olympiade 1936!
In der Halle des Sportforums begannen am Dienstag die Florett-Fechterinnen mit den Vorkampfen:
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U.B.z. aus dem Gefecht der Kanadierin Nancy Archibald (links) gegen die Brasilianerin Hilda von Puttkammer"

Publisher

Fencing Arms & Artifacts

Date

1936

Temporal Coverage

1930s

Contributor

Das Sportbild von Schirner (Publisher)

Rights

CC BY-NC 4.0

Is Part Of

George Masin Collection

Format

24.5 x 18.0 cm

Language

German

Type

Photograph

Identifier

2021.03.022

Spatial Coverage

Germany

Berlin

Provenance

Digitized by Benjamin Bowles

Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles

Loaned for digitization by George Masin