Whimsical costumes abounded at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. By Nate Jones. Published on February 7, 2014 09:00AM EST. ... as this beautiful Art Nouveau poster demonstrates.

The first-ever Winter Olympics poster A poster for the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, France, January–February 1924. Designed by Auguste Matisse, the poster was published by a railway ...

Vintage poster for the 1924 Paris Olympics showing three athletes raising their arms, with text. Harlingue / Roger Viollet via Getty Images. Franck Fife / AFP via Getty Images.

A poster hyping the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France. About 5,000 copies were produced. ... Figure skaters at the 1924 winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, January 30, 1924.

Another poster publicising the Winter Olympics in 1924 Henie moved to American and became a Hollywood superstar who famously had an affair with boxer Joe Louis. Britains’s only gold came in the ...

The winter sports were popular, so in 1924 an International Winter Sports Week was held in Chamonix, France. Those competitions are considered the first Winter Olympics, but they were not as big ...

The 1924 Olympics featured 11-year-old Norwegian skater Sonja Henie, and although she did not win any medals at those Games, she went on to win gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936. Currently, an athlete ...

Athletes wear suits and ties and smoke pipes in amazing photos of first ever Winter Olympics in 1924. Mark Fleming; Published: 10:00, 3 Feb 2022; Updated: 11:33, 3 Feb 2022; ...