View of library material storage boxes on shelves. Text overlay: From the Collections, NYSL

It’s almost time for the 2024 Olympic games! Here at the NYS Library, we’re getting ready for the games the only way we know how, by bringing out some winning items from our collections.

These three postcards from the NYS Library’s Manuscripts and Special Collections unit show scenes from Lake Placid, NY, home of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games and probably best known for the ice hockey tournament, the Miracle on Ice!  

Whether you’re looking forward to Paris 2024 or just thinking ahead to winter weather, we’re sure these snowy postcards will add some Olympic-sized cool to your day.

The postcards are from the NYS Library’s Abele Transportation History Collection, SC22662 (Box 31, Folder 5). 

P.S. Don’t miss Roni, the 1980 Winter Olympics mascot, a raccoon who features on the back of each postcard. 

Three postcards showing various winter scenes from the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic site
Three postcards showing various scenes from the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic site.
The backs of the postcards, overlapping slightly, showing the descriptions of the sites.
The backs of the postcards showing the descriptions of the Olympic sites.
Close-up of Roni, the raccoon mascot.
Close-up of Roni, the raccoon mascot of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.