Louis Joseph Sebert at the Olympic Games, 1908
Description
- Creator
- Unknown
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Types
- Negatives
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white negative of a photograph of Louis Sebert in starting position at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, England. He represented Canada.
- Notes
- Louis J. Sebert was born in Whitby in 1886 and lived at Whitby and Brooklin in his youth. He was a champion track and field athlete at the University of Toronto and represented Canada at the Olympic Games in London, England in 1908.
At the time of his death he was a member of the athletic board at the University of Toronto. He presented the Sebert Cup as a track and field trophy for the Whitby High School.
He graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1912 and served on the staff at St. Michael's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He died at Toronto on 2 December 1942. - Inscriptions
- Handwritten in ink: 'The Stadium London July, 08'
- Date of Original
- July 1908
- Dimensions
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Width: 6 cm
Height: 6 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 21-006-008
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Images Collection
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Whitby Archives
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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