Sonja Henie’s Autographed Ice Skates, c. 1945, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History During the late 1920s and 1930s, Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie introduced the trend of white ...

Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15, she ...

I have never been on ice skates. I grew up in California and Hawaii, where I learned to swim and water ski. The first time I ever stepped onto frozen water was as a young bride, visiting new in-laws ...

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(Reuters) - Oslo's shock April snowfall of 1912 is remembered as one of the city's more memorable events of the last century, but it pales in comparison to the emergence of Sonja Henie, the precocious ...

Each 19 x 30.5cm (7¼ x 12 in.) : 68 x 53cm (26 ¾ x 20 ¾ in.) ...