Athletes

The unidentified climber has reached the top of the pole. The location is also unidentified.

An unidentified person is climbing the pole. The location is also unidentified.

An unidentified person climbing the pole has almost reached the top. The location also is unidentified.

Unidentified combatants perform judo in Japan.

Two unidentified Japanese cultural preservation society performers balancing on the tops of ladders. They are recreating the Edo period matchibikeshi (fire brigade) annual new year festival acrobatic performances (dezomeshiki), which were used to warn people about the dangers of fires and to promote the skills of the brigades.

The Cambridge Squash Racquets Team paid a visit to the Pentagon office of Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (seated, center) while on tour of the United States. From left to right: United States Navy Commander Burke Wilkinson, John L. Tappin, John Lucas, Tony Starte, Peter Robinson, Peter Gautier-Smith, Edwin H. Bigelow, Tony Swales, Ian Sherborne and Colonel Cole of the British Army.

View of two men engaged in some type of athletic sporting event with a crowd of viewers in the background. Photograph is a postcard and probably was taken in some area of Afghanistan or India.

Exterior, full body view of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer as a young man (right) standing beside unidentified hockey team member. Both are dressed in hockey uniforms standing with their hockey sticks. Location not known.

Full body, exterior view of eight young men standing together in polo uniforms holding their sticks. Diplomat and author Charles Thayer may be the young man third from the left. Believed to be the West Point Army team. Location and members not identified.

Full body, exterior view of a young male polo player in uniform standing by his horse in front of a building. Location of photograph not given. Individual may be Bruce Von G. Scott as identified in a newspaper article with the collection. He would have been a member of the West Point Army polo team as was Charles W. Thayer.