"Miss Jennie Fletcher, amateur lady champion, 1908-9-10, making up " Jarvis Costumes". Jennie Fletcher was Britain’s first woman Olympic swimming medallist, winning a bronze medal in the individual 100-metre freestyle race and a gold in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. She is shown in this publicity image with other women sewing swimming costumes named after her fellow Leicester swimmer John Arthur Jarvis. Jarvis (formerly Zephyr) supplied costumes to swimmers at the 1908 Olympics

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