Bertha von Hillern. Autograph Letter Signed Describing a Pedestrienne Performance in Maine. Four-page autograph letter signed, written in Bucksport, Maine, and dated August 12, 1877, from a woman identified as Caitlin to her parents. The letter provides a vivid firsthand account of a public endurance-walking exhibition by Bertha von Hillern.....
[19th c. Women] [Physical Education] C.L. McCluer Stevens. “A Unique School,” for girls that focuses on physical education described in an original 1897 article from The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 6, 1897. Unbound. p. 589-594. 9 x 6.5 inches. Article about a school for girls that focuses on.....
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.....
[Women SPORTS] Six action shots of a women's fencing dual in the early 1900s. 4" x 6" each. Stereoview on cardboard mount. N.p. Captioned "Le Duel" with each photograph numbered. Historically, fencing has been primarily a men's sport, and though women have been fencing for hundreds of years, there was.....
Betty Cuthbert Australian athlete and a four-time Olympic champion. She was nicknamed Australia's "Golden Girl". During her career, she set world records for 60 metres, 100 yards, 200 metres, 220 yards and 440 yards. Australian sprinter, who starred at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, At 18, she won three.....
Albumen carte-de-visite depicting a woman dressed in a dark riding habit, holding a slender riding crop in her right hand and resting her left on a desk. C.a. 1850s–70s. 2.5" x 4" on cardstock mount. There are no markings on the photograph indicating the woman’s identity, though her long-sleeved fitted.....
[WOMEN IN SPORTS] Photographic collection of 18 rare vintage photos celebrating girls and women in sports. Some are identified with names and locations. Locations include New Jersey, Canada, New York, California, Massachusetts. Dated approximately 1900-1940. Various sizes; mostly between 8.5" x 11" and 6.5x 8.5", with four smaller photos at.....
[Women in Sports] Archive of six photographs documenting women’s competitive and recreational swimming, 1910s-30s. Includes six silver gelatin press and studio photographs depicting female swimmers and divers, dating ca. 1910–1933. Press photos with press annotations and stamps from ACME Newspictures, NEA, and Culver Service. Locations include Palm Beach, Florida, and.....
[Tennis Champion] Helen Willis. Time: the Weekly News-Magazine. July 26, 1926. Vol. VIII, No. 4. Time Publishing Company. Helen Wills is known as one of the greatest woman tennis players of all time. She won 31 Grand Slam titles during her career, 2 Olympic gold medals, and was the Wimbledon.....
turn of the century Championship Women’s Baseball Team Photo Postcard. “The Western Bloomer Girls—Ladies Champion Base Ball Club—Watervliet, Mich.” Vintage photo-illustrated postcard of the girls baseball team. No date, c. 1911. Eleven uniformed girls pose for a team photograph. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. The Western Bloomer Girls were founded in.....
19 century vintage albumen photograph featuring four rows of women holding free weights in a gymnasium. Image itself Measuring 8.25" x 5" inches mounted on photographer's board of aprox 10" x 8" inches. Albumen print. Circa 1890's. The women stand in tightly single file rows holding dumbbell weights in both.....
Early Female Gymnasts Photo Archive with six silver gelatin photographs of various sizes, circa 1920s. These photos documents early female gymnasts before it was an accepted sports for female athletes. At this point in history, gymnastics was still a mostly male sport but starting at the 1928 Olympics women were.....
Silver gelatin press photo of women's lacrosse team. Los Angeles. C. 1920s. Measures 8 x 10 inches. Photo shows three female players, one fielding the ball with her stick, the other two rushing to intercept her, a male referee caught between them only partially visible. Verso reads "The Hurons of.....
2 Albumen photos of early recreational tennis game. Circa 1880’s. Larger photo measures 6.75” x 8.5” inches on original photographer’s board measuring 9.75” x 6.75”. Smaller photo measures 7.25” x 4.5” inches on white photographer’s board measuring 8” x 5” inches. Photo was taken by Marston photo studio of Bangor.....
[Sports and Hobbies][Women’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.....
[Women in Sports] Photo archive of 3 photos of women holding basketballs, two with women in early women’s sports uniforms. Circa 1910-20s. Small silver gelatin prints. Each measures 4.5” x 2.75” inches. The photos encapsulate the excitement of young women entering the sport. In two of the photos, players wear.....
