Highlights of 1952: The Olympic Flag is hoisted to mark the Olympic Year. Opening of the Winter Olympics. Men’s 50 km cross-country skiing and women’s 10 km cross-country skiing at the Winter Olym...
Air show in Nummela. Moroccan basketball team in Helsinki. Sugar beet singling competition in Turenki. The new Jännevirta Bridge in North Savo. Handing over the Rauma Railway Line to the State Railwa...
The Polytech Choir returns to Helsinki Malmi Airport. Nobel laureate Ralph Bunche (1904-1971) in Helsinki (Helsinki Malmi Airport, Savoy restaurant). Christmas greeting. Hurricane in the USA. Aircraft...
Spring Fair opening. Visiting Comédie-Française actors at a reception at the National Theatre in Helsinki (among the guests President Paasikivi and Prime Minister Kekkonen). Basketball match: Harlem...
May Day in Helsinki: workers’ and university students’ processions, students’ festivities in Ullanlinna. Davis Cup tennis match, Finland v. Brazil, in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki. 25th anniversary exh...
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...
President K. J. StÃ¥hlberg in memoriam: StÃ¥hlberg gives a speech in 1919; Presidential Palace and Flag; StÃ¥hlberg’s library; StÃ¥hlberg at his desk; StÃ¥hlberg’s home in Kulosaari, Helsinki; StÃ...