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Apologies for cross posting.
The Vane Ivanovic Collection at Kingston University Archives and Special Collections contains a number of items relating to the Olympic Games, as Ivanovic himself was a competitor in the 1936 Berlin and 1948 London Games. One of the gems in the Collection is a picture of Wartburg Castle in Germany, with the mount signed by 123 athletes and other visitors to the 1936 Games. Amongst those who signed are the renowned gold medal winner Jesse Owens. The British relay team who won gold at the Games also signed the mount of the picture. Other well known guests who were not competing at the Games who signed include Harold Abrahams, gold medal winner at the 1924 Olympics whose story featured in the film Chariots of Fire, who attended the 1936 Games as a Press Reporter. Evelyn Aubrey Montague also featured in Chariots of Fire and attended the games as a press reporter, and he later went on to become a well known war correspondent. An online version of the picture is now available here http://www.kingston.ac.uk/informationservices/archives/collections/vane_ivanovic/olympic-poster/ , and it can be zoomed in to examine the signatures in depth, so you can discover more about the stories of these and some of the other individuals who signed the picture. The picture is a work in progress, and we hope to add more biographical information soon.
Items from the Ivanovic Collection including the 1936 Signed Picture, as well as photographs and other items from the Kingston University records, also feature in a small new exhibition at Kingston University Archives and Special Collections which looks at sports related items from the Collections. The exhibition is in the entrance area of the Archives and Special Collections, based with the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) at our Penrhyn Road campus- a map of the campus and directions can be found at http://www.kingston.ac.uk/aboutkingstonuniversity/location/maps/ . The exhibition will be available until mid-August within the opening times of the Penrhyn Road LRC. For the latest information on opening times please see http://www.kingston.ac.uk/informationservices/usingthelibrary/opening_hours.html .
If you have any questions regarding either the web resource or the exhibition, do please email us at [log in to unmask] .
Many thanks
Katie Giles
Archivist, Kingston University Archives and Special Collections
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