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Winter Sports

by The Library of Congress

The 2026 Winter Olympics are officially underway! See athletes sled, slide, skate, and ski with this selection of images from the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division.

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Skiing down the Taft Trail on Cannon Mountain, Franconia Notch, New Hampshire (LOC)

Skating at the Memorial Basin. Freezing weather in Washington [...] (LOC)

Jan Momchilovich of Jackson, Wyoming, strides on her cross-country skis in the Antelope Flats Valley as the Teton Range looms in the distance in Grand Teton National Park (LOC)

Sports Illustrated - Switzerland, Job X3138 (LOC)

Skiing Robot Extras, X3784 (LOC)

Skiing at Sugarbush (LOC)

American Airlines--Alta Park City Sundance--Salt Lake City (LOC)

[Ann Bonfoey Taylor, full-length portrait, skiing down a slope, Vail, Colorado] (LOC)

Join NSA, National Ski Association (LOC)

Twenty-three-year-old expert skier A.J. Pfatschbacher, a marketing professional who learned to ski at age 3 in his native Wisconsin, swooshes to a stop amid snow-laden trees at the Copper Mountain Ski Resort, near the town of Frisco in Summit County, Colo

Playing "bandy" or hockey on a field of ice, in the Engadine, Switzerland (LOC)

Switzerland Hockey (LOC)

Sunday morning relaxation. Park Pond. Frequented by both school and mill boys and girls. (LOC)

Skating at Rockefeller Center, New York, New York (LOC)

[Ice skating; Lincoln Memorial in background. Washington, D.C.] (LOC)

[Irving Brokaw ice skating: doing a double toe pirouette on Central Park Lake] (LOC)

[Pair figure skating] (LOC)

Curling, Van Cortlandt Park, New York (LOC)

Curling in Central Park, New York (LOC)

Playing for a "wick," ladies' curling match, Montreal Curling Club, Canada (LOC)

St. Moritz -- Start of Bobsleigh Run (LOC)

Expert snowboarder Jordan Zdanek descends a slope at the Copper Mountain Ski Resort, near Frisco, Colorado (LOC)

Ski jumpers kick off an evening that will include spectacular fireworks over the mountain at the annual Winter Carnival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As of 2015, the five-day event, first staged in 1913, stood as the oldest winter carnival west of the M

Olympic bobsled run, Lake Placid (LOC)

Steinhoff bobsled, for two people, Caldwell, N.J. (LOC)