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Old SportBiblio.com

Young Sports Five Cent Library No. 2 June 30 1894 - Famous Amos Rusie The Great Pitcher; or The Life and Adventures of the Giant Ball Player

Early Women in SportsBiblio.com

Women's Sports and Victorian Leisure Culture: Female Tennis Player Photograph Archive ca. 1880s-1910s

1880206021880. Unidentified photographers female tennis player photograph archive ca. 1880s-1910s documents women's participation in organized sport and recreational culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries supporting research into gender roles physical activity and educational environments for women in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The group captures tennis as one of the few socially sanctioned athletic pursuits for women showing both formal portraiture and active play. The inclusion of seminary-based stereoviews alongside studio cartes-de-visite and outdoor scenes establishes a transatlantic visual record of how tennis intersected with women's education leisure and identity formation during a period of restricted physical and social mobility. Eight original photographs including five albumen prints and three stereoviews sepia toned ranging from approximately 2.5 x 4 inches to 3 x 4.5 inches. Two cartes-de-visite depict waist-length portraits of women holding tennis rackets dressed in late nineteenth-century attire including fitted bodices and high collars; versos bear photographer imprints for Hellis & Sons of London and George Goodman of Margate. Additional images show women engaged in doubles matches on grass courts including one action-oriented scene with players mid-swing wearing wide-brimmed hats and layered dresses. One photograph shows two young women in matching outfits possibly school uniforms standing in a yard holding rackets. The three stereoviews dated 1905 and issued by C.H. Graves of Philadelphia are captioned "A Masquerade at the Seminary Confidences" "Trying on the Costumes" and "Planning to Scare the Freshies" each depicting groups of young women in a dormitory interior; tennis rackets are visible mounted on the wall in the background linking athletic culture to residential school life. Based on the photographer and setting the images may relate to a women's seminary such as Darlington Seminary in West Chester Pennsylvania. Produced during the decades following the introduction of lawn tennis to the United States in 1874 the archive situates women's participation in sport within broader developments in leisure education and shifting norms of female physicality. The imagery documents the persistence of restrictive dress including corseted garments and long skirts even in athletic contexts underscoring the negotiation between mobility and propriety. Minor surface wear consistent with age with strong image clarity and tonal stability across prints. Overall in very good condition. unknown

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Women in SportsBiblio.com

Women in Sports Photo Archive Including One of the Earliest Female Bullfighters 1900-1950s

1900224351900. Sports and HobbiesWomen's History Archive of six original photographs depicting women in sports and physical culture ca. 1900s-1950s. A striking group of five silver gelatin photographs and one stereoview documenting early and mid-20th century women's athletics across a range of sports including bullfighting competitive swimming mass calisthenics and weight training. The archive is anchored by a powerful press photograph of Bertha Trujillo a Colombian woman bullfighter shown bloodstained and exhausted yet defiant after leaving the ring as documented by a Hamilton Wright press caption on verso dated May 7 1956. The image captures the rare spectacle of a woman operating within a hypermasculine and violently gendered tradition underlining her transgressive presence in the public arena of the corrida. Trujillo's visibility as a "girl bullfighter" not only subverts gendered codes of spectacle and aggression but also underscores the fraught place of women in national rituals of machismo. Also included is an early gelatin silver stereoview of a woman mid-dive from a boat into open water ca. 1900s her long dress captured in graceful suspension. A vintage sepia-toned postcard shows a massive synchronized physical training display by women in uniform skirts likely in a European stadium setting. A third photograph features a smiling young woman swimmer in a tight one-piece suit standing beside a trophy likely ca. 1920s-30s exuding post-competition confidence and the growing visibility of women in elite amateur sport. Two additional gelatin silver prints ca. 1930s-40s show women engaged in solitary strength and flexibility exercises: one throwing a medicine ball under clouded sky the other stretching a resistance band at the edge of a pond. Each of these images gestures toward evolving conceptions of female strength embodiment and public physicality across the 20th century. The photographs collectively trace a visual history of women's contested access to spaces of physical prowess and public acclaim. Minor edge wear and surface rubbing to a few prints. Overall very good condition. A varied archive showcasing women's athleticism in the early 20th century. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis255,00 $US≈ 215,76 €