Historic Sports Events

Vintage photographs capturing historical sporting events, including police races and baseball games, illustrating the charm of classic athletic competitions.

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane

Police Running Race

Anefo photo collection. Baseball OVVO against HHC. Game moment. August 16, 1952

Cake Walk - Van Cortlandt Park New York

Meckler-Allen Aeroplane

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Anefo photo collection. Handball competitions in Friesland. May 18, 1948. Friesland

N.Y. Americans ball field, Kleinow catching (Boston - N.Y.), New York

N.Y. University practice

Football practice at Yale

Michael T. "Jimmy" Walsh, Philadelphia NL (baseball)

Anefo photo collection. Baseball Holland against England. Game moment 3rd base. 28 June 1952

New York Giants walk onto the field at the Polo Grounds New York prior to Game One of the 1912 World Series, October 8, 1912 (baseball)

Photo collection First World War. Running competition, relay number, in a stadium between soldiers of different parts? Germany?. November 21, 1918

Carlisle - Dartmouth

Carlisle v. Syracuse

Scott

Carlisle v. Syracuse

Anefo photo collection. Military sports competitions. July 31, 1947

Crowd at opening game, American League Park betw. Boston & N.Y.

110 metre race - Olympic Games - 1912

Sport and Leisure during the Second World War A rugby match between the Royal Air Force and a French team at the Parc des Princes Stadium, Paris, in the first Anglo-French Rugby International in France in 15 years.

Carlisle v. Syracuse

Hippodrome and roulette skating. "Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, two galloping horsemen, near Porte Maillot, Paris (XVI-XVIIth arr.)". Photo club of Paris. Albumin paper draw. Between 1882 and 1912. Paris, Carnavalet Museum. 100481-7 Hippodrome, roulette skating

Opening Day at Hilltop Park, NY; NY Highlanders (AL) & Phila. Athletics warming up (baseball)

Anefo photo collection. Korfball blue and white against the south 4-4, game moment. July 10, 1955. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Jumping, Domburg, 1899 stereograph Domburg paper. photographic support. cardboard Domburg

Elsevier photo collection. theole sports grounds Tiel. mayor Waddenoyen kick-off. April 1917. Gelderland, Tiel, Waddenoyenl

Anefo photo collection. Athletics competitions in Velsen-Noord. Forest 200m. August 20, 1961. Noord-Holland, Velsen

Anefo photo collection. Elinkwijk against 3C Enschede 2-1. Helmut Bahn (right) in duel with gaddess (left) and goalkeeper full. April 9, 1961

Gardner and Felton, Harvard

Anefo photo collection. Korfbal Netherlands against Belgium 7-4. June 6, 1948

Alvin Gipe (left) & Topsy Hartsel (right), Philadelphia AL (baseball)

Benalla v. Collingwood Cricket Match in Australia on Easter Monday 1909 1909

Red Sox coming on field World Series, Boston AL (baseball)

Goulding -- sports

Hawaii vs. Keio University, Japan

G. Dukes, I.A.C.,high-jumping (pole vaulting), Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn

Rice and Doust tennis

1906 World Series game at West Side Park in Chicago , Stadiums, Baseball, Sports spectators. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

'A Football Match at Manchester', c1896. Artist: R Banks.

Guy Zinn, New York AL, sliding back into first base against Boston at Hilltop Park, New York City (baseball)

Anefo photo collection. Hockey HHIGC against Togo. December 25, 1950

Bundy

Cowboy tying up and roping a thrown calf during a roping contest at the rodeo of the San Angelo Fat Stock Show, San Angelo, Texas. 1940. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Angelo, Texas , Tom Green County

Frank E. Smith, Cincinnati, NL (baseball)

Going to the Post, Morris Park Made 1904 United States. For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.. Photogravure . Alfred Stieglitz

Anefo photo collection. Amsterdam against HBC, playing moment. November 17, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Russian dance, Van Cortlandt Park

Yale varsity football team, before or after practice

Madrid, 01/29/1911. Match of the II Rodríguez Azuaga Cup played at Campo de O'donnell between Madrid FC and the Real Sociedad Gimnástica Española, in which the whites won. In the image, Manolo Prast, the great ball juggler, harassed by Sócrates Quintana. In the background, José Manuel Kindelán, on the left Chulilla.

Sports. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Golf match Fred McLeod

KNVB photo collection. Removal of wounded after succumbing the gates of a Staanthribune.Belgia - the Netherlands (1-0), played on April 1, 1928 in the Antwerp FC Stadium (De Bosuil) in Antwerpen .. April 1, 1928. Antwerp

Anefo photo collection. Hockey team occupancy zone in Amsterdam. February 6, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Rowing competitions. June 21, 1952

Fylgia (depicted name).Fylgia (depicted name)

Anefo photo collection. Open air concert from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra led by Eduard Flipse on Tennis Park in Noordwijk. July 28, 1951. Noordwijk

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC 2-year anniversary M.L.O .. The biennial of the basic command in Batavia department MLO commemorated on July 18, among other things, with a large sports demonstration in the decapark in Batavia. Football match. July 18, 1948. Batavia, Batavia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java, Dutch East Indies

1/2 mile walk, E.H. Clark - 1st; J. Bredemus -2nd, Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn

Members Of The 8Th Air Force Particpate In A Vigorous Game Of Baseball At 8Th Air Force Station F-357 In Duxford, England. 19 September 1944.

Description: Finish of a Race for Natives. Location: Penang, Malaya Date: 1897 asia, malaysia, asiathroughalens

Archery tournament - Boston

Sports. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Instructing Yale football team

Crowds, Yale-Princeton

West Side Park, Chicago, 1906 World Series , Baseball, Stadiums, Baseball players, Sports spectators, Chicago White Sox Baseball team, Chicago Cubs Baseball team. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

Runners ready to start in Shrubb-Dorando Marathon Race (St. Yves, Longboat, Hayes, and Maloney)

Cricket match, late 19th-early 20th century. Creator: Unknown.

Wm. Smith golf match

Sports. 1940-09-01T00:00:00. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

Anefo photo collection. Baseball EHS against OVVO 4-4 game moment. June 11, 1962

Golf match Alex Finley, Scarsdale Golf Club

Madrid, 05/15/1929. General view of the metropolitan stadium on May 15, 1929, date of the first Spain/England match. The Spanish team defeated the English team after overcoming a two-zero loss, winning by four to three.

Winning a sprint, U.S. Naval Academy field day | Library of Congress

Cadets from the P.N. 30 School of Military Aeronautics at the University of California, Berkeley, California, are seen participating in a friendly game of outdoor soft-ball baseball. The photograph was received from the Director of Military Aeronautics and is labeled for official use only.

Photo collection First World War. Running competition .. 1914-1918}

Description: Ceremonial Parade, Kumasi - Saturday, May 15th. Location: Kumasi Date: 15 May africa

Cornell v. Brown, 10/24/14

Pit before grandstand - cup race Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race

Long Branch Horse Show

A.E. Neargaard, playing tennis

Soldier practicing discus throwing as part of Olympic tryouts at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri in 1920. This photograph, taken by the Signal Corps, capture the final practice before the event. Photograph number 68921, symbol RECO 7-23-1920, issued under the description "discus throwing." Additional notes include 3068921.

Anefo photo collection. Cricket Netherlands A Netherlands B. 29 June 1958

At Wellington: The Mile Championship - Goodbehere 1st; Short 2nd; Oram 3rd, 16 October 1904. From the album: Family photographs 1904-1907, 1904, Levin, by Leslie Adkin.

Anefo photo collection. Wimbledon tennis game in Noordwijk, Patty Drobny, from Ewal Savith. July 6, 1952. Noordwijk

Matthey i.e. Mathey tennis

Anefo photo collection. Baseball UVV against HHC. Game moment. April 27, 1963

Equestrian play with big ball, Medan Sumatra.

Four recordings of bullfights in the Amfitheater in Arles, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1915 photograph This magazine is part of an album. France paper. photographic support travelling; tourism. amphitheatre. bullfight France. Arles. Amphitheater of Arles

Wellington College, sports day crowd, November 1920, Wellington, by Roland Searle.

Jones Wins British Amateur Championship -- Bobby Jones and Roger Wethered shown during their finals match for the British Amateur Championship on the course at St. Andrews, May 31. Jones is putting. The boy from Atlanta, Ga. took the British team captain in 7 and 6, winning the only major golfing crown he has missed heretofore. June 06, 1930. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. Germans prisoners of war. German prisoner of war in England play football. December 1939

Playground Ass'n Meeting Polish dance N.Y. school children

Trick roper at rodeo, Miles City, Montana 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

New York Female Giants (baseball)

California league Baseball grounds, Baseball

A.G. Vanderbilt

Slide, Kelly, Slide , Baseball players, Baseball, Kelly, Michael J., 1857-1894. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

07/31/1921. People watching tennis in San Sebastian.

The 1899 FA Cup Final was contested by Sheffield United and Derby County at Crystal Palace, London. Sheffield United won 41, with goals scored by John Almond, Walter Bennett, Billy Beer and Fred Priest. John Boag scored Derby's goal. This picture is a general view looking over the pitch during the game, with the outline of the Crystal Palace in the background. Date: 1899

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