Item 40459 - Adeline Gehrig and Alice Glienke, Portland, 1920
- Item 40459 - Adeline Gehrig and Alice Glienke, Portland, 1920
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Image Info 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.
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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.
