Archive of eight black and white silver gelatin photographs of amateur women's boxing matches. Three photographs show women boxing in an outdoor ring clad in their undergarments or swimsuits. Spectators, coaches, and referees are not visible in these photos and they are likely amateur matches between friends or a boxing.....
Archive of 10 silver gelatin photos of various international women's sports from the late 1890s to the 1920s. The sports included are mountaineering, croquet, bicycling, club swinging, and horseback riding. Photos measure between 2" x 3" and 3.5" x 5.5". The late 19th century began a rapid emergence of women.....
[Photo Album] [Girls Education] Photo album with 49 photos of a young girl and her friends around 1920. 49 small silver gelatin print photos. All approximately 1 1/4 x 1 in. Original green paper boards. 7 x 10 in. Ribbon tie binding. Gilt “Photographs” on front cover. 7 pages. Original.....
[Women's Sports] Women’s wrestling photograph archive documenting amateur competitions, gymnasium training, and professional wrestling performers between the 1940s and the 1970s. The images record women participating in a sport historically dominated by men, illustrating the gradual emergence of female wrestling as both an amateur athletic activity and a professional entertainment.....
Unidentified photographers, female boxing photograph archive, late 1940s–1950s, documents the emergence of organized women’s boxing in the United States, supporting research into gender barriers in professional sport, postwar athletic culture, and the early institutional recognition of female fighters. The photographs capture three central figures in mid-century women’s boxing—Barbara Buttrick, Phyllis.....
Unidentified photographers, photograph archive of women’s track and field athletes, 1921 to 1949, documenting the expansion of women’s participation in international athletics and Olympic competition during the early twentieth century. The material provides primary visual evidence of women competing in events historically excluded from female participation, supporting research into gender.....
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.....
Women’s competitive golf archive, 1910s to 1930s, documents women golfers in practice, tournament, and club settings during the formative decades of organized women’s golf in the United States. The group provides visual evidence of women’s athletic participation in a sport long associated with country-club respectability, social access, and gendered expectations.....
Women’s boxing photograph archive, 1974 to 1983, documents women as fighters, trainers, judges, and sanctioned competitors during a period when boxing remained one of the most heavily gendered professional sports. The archive provides primary visual evidence of women’s participation in combative athletics before women’s boxing received Olympic recognition as a......
Women’s participation in boxing long preceded formal recognition of the sport for female athletes, developing through informal exhibitions, training clubs, and novelty bouts that challenged prevailing gender norms. Although women were largely excluded from organized boxing competitions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scattered photographic evidence demonstrates that women.....
