History: Three boxes containing gold medals sit at the base of the pots of three young oak trees in this 1936 publicity photo of Jesse Owens, who is wearing the traditional laurel crown of an Olympic winner. The trees were given to each gold medalist by the German Olympic Committee [1992 x 1473].

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