Grace F. Thorpe Collection

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Grace F. Thorpe Collection

1900-2008

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.085

3.5 Linear feet; 2,175 Photographic prints; 166 Negatives (photographic); 27 Nitrate negatives; 113 Slides (photographs); 5 Contact sheets

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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11613632

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6553d6w (person)

Jim Thorpe, also known as James Francis Thorpe, also known as Wa-Tho-Huk, (b. May 22 or 28, 1887, Prague Indian Territory, Oklahoma-d. March 28, 1953, Lomita, California) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe became the first Native American to win a gold medal for his home country. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, and played American football (c...

Thorpe, Grace Frances, 1921-2008

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Grace Frances Thorpe was born in Yale, Oklahoma on December 10, 1921 to parents James (Jim) Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk)) and Iva Margaret Miller Thorpe. Jim, already a famed athelete and olympic medalist, had met Iva as students at Carlisle Indian School and were married in 1913. Grace was the youngest of four, Gail Margaret, James and Charlotte Marie though her brother James died from polio at a young age. When Iva and Jim divorced in 1923, Iva and the girls moved to Chicago while Jim mo...