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Description
Adelaide Gehrig at left and Alice Glienke, both of New York, were US fencing champions in the 1920s. Both fenced for the New York Turn Verein.
Gehrig competed in the first Olympics open to women in 1924.
They were on a two-week hiking vacation in New England and planned to visit Bar Harbor and Poland Spring.
About This Item
- Title: Adeline Gehrig and Alice Glienke, Portland, 1920
- Creation Date: 1920
- Subject Date: 1920
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.1711
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Athletes--United States
- Fencers--United States
- Fencing--United States
- Gehrig, Adeline--Travel
- Glienke, Alice--Travel
- Hiking--Maine
- Women athletes--United States
- Women fencers--United States
- Women--Clothing & dress--1910-1920
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