Competition for a war hero memorial to be erected in Hietaniemi cemetery in Helsinki. The Olympic Flag is hoisted on New Year’s Day at Helsinki’s Market Square. Olympic coins minted at the Mint of...
Training Olympic interpreters. Non-figurative exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki. Children’s arts competition. School Radio introduces the use of colour slides as a teaching method. 50,000th Ford car...
Danish fashion in Helsinki. First inhabitants of the Social Democratic Women’s old-age home in Käpylä, Helsinki. Handing over of the earthen-floored Otaniemi Sports Hall. State Railways’ new rai...
Winter Olympics qualifications in Lahti. The Winter Olympics team have a cup of coffee and Ipnos biscuits at Hotel Helsinki before leaving for Oslo. Olympic suitcase stickers. Opening ceremony of the ...
Oslo Winter Olympics in Norway, Part II: Torch relay. Men’s 50 km cross-country skiing. Women’s 10 km cross-country skiing.
Oslo Winter Olympics in Norway, Part III: Men’s relay. The ski jumping event drew a record audience. The royal family arrives, the royal anthem is struck up, and the games can start. International s...
Children’s art exhibition at the Helsinki School of Economics. Journalists are shown around the Leiras pharmaceutical factory in Turku. Upper secondary school students celebrate their final day of s...
Opening of the new children’s home of the Child Care Society in Töölö, Helsinki. Ice swimming demonstration in Humallahti Bay, Helsinki. Opening of a geriatric research and advice centre at the I...