Category Archives: Sports
Exercise
Description | English: Silhouettes of women exercising, from a 1924 advertisement |
Date | 1924 |
Source | Advertisement in Motion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n207/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Diving Girl
Description | English: Diving girl, from an advertisement for the Federal School of Commercial Designing. “Do you like to draw? Copy the picture of the diving girl and send us your drawing—perhaps you will win first prize.” |
Date | 1924 |
Source | Advertisement in Motion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n115/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Harness Racing
Description | English: Stock cut from an American Type Founders specimen book, 1897 |
Date | 1897 |
Source | American Type Founders Company specimen book (https://archive.org/details/specimensoftypeb00amer/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Gymnastic Exercises
Description | English: Gymnastic exercises from an 1883 book |
Date | 1883 |
Source | Home Gymnastics (https://archive.org/details/homegymnasticsfo00hart/page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Jousting
Description | English: Joust from a 1550 book of jousts and tournaments |
Date | 1550 |
Source | Thournier, Kampff unnd Ritterspiel (https://archive.org/details/thournierkampffu00egen) |
Author | Anonymous |
According to the librarian, this cut was originally issued in 1517, and was formerly attributed to H. Schäufelein. This scalable illustration can be used at any size.
Golfer at the Eighteenth Hole
Description | English: Ornament or illustration of golfer |
Date | 1918 |
Source | Pacific Telephone Magazine (https://archive.org/details/pacific-telephone-magazine_11_07/page/n17/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
This scalable illustration can be used at any size.
Cricket Players in 1905
Description |
English: Cricket players from a 1905 advertisement
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Date | |
Source | Advertisement in catalogue of the Naval Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition, 1905 (https://archive.org/details/navalshippingfis00earl/page/n7) |
Author | Anonymous |
Tennis Player, 1893
Costume of the United Bowmen of Philadelphia
Description |
English: Archers from the United Bowmen of Philadelphia in an 1839 engraving
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Date | |
Source | Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, 1839 (https://archive.org/stream/burtonsgentleman1839burt#page/109/mode/1up) |
Author | Anonymous engraver |