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Vintage Sports Cartoons

Illustrations depicting humorous and whimsical takes on various sports from the early 20th century. Features skiing, boxing, and cricket in a playful style.

Caricature of members of the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club at Balgownie, formed in 1780. Members featured nclude Dr R. S. Clark, who was with Shackleton on the Endurance, Harvey Mackintosh and Richard (Dick) Walker. 1935
Caricature of members of the Royal Aberdeen Golf Club at Balgownie, formed in 1780. Members featured nclude Dr R. S. Clark, who was with Shackleton on the Endurance, Harvey Mackintosh and Richard (Dick) Walker. 1935
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This 1896 color work by Alois Hans Schram depicts the International Exhibition for Physical Education in Innsbruck, showing sport demonstrations and exhibition displays.
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A man bowling and batting in cricket. Date: 1880s
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Poll photo collection. Rome: visit to the Foro Mussolini. Image of an athlete at the entrance to the stadio dei Marmi part of the FORO Mussolini sports complex. December 1937. Italy, Rome
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Cartoon - Our Political Bobsledders. John Collins (1917-2007)
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Tom Hughes and his penny farthing in 1888 - and Tom later in 1938.
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Down for the Count, Boxing
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Colored poster by an anonymous artist depicting the General German Sports Exhibition in Munich in 1899, showing athletes and exhibition displays.
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Morgan Saddles #1, Horses - Riding & Racing
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Cartoon - Relay Race. John Collins (1917-2007)
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That concludes our morning exercises, be sure and tune in again tomorrow! , Physical fitness, Radios, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Ovaltine drink advertised with an Olympic theme for the 1948 Olympic Games, London
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CUBA - CIRCA 1981: A stamp printed in the CUBA, image is devoted World championship on football, Spain 82, circa 1981
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Advertisement for sports articles from Reppy & Co in Amsterdam and Utrecht, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953) (Possible), 1884 - 1952 photomechanical print Woman with a tennis racket. paper printing block ball games in which ball is hit with racket (or hand). standing figure - AA - female human figure
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German Stadium, First General Autumn Sports Festival. Vintage German Sports Poster. by Fritz Rumpf , 1913
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Bout between Kajigahama Rikiemon and Sekinoto Hachiroji and the Referee Kimura Shonosuke Katsukawa Shunsho (Japanese) Woodblock print
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Cartoon of Skiers Losing Control. ca. 1939, Cartoon of Skiers Losing Control
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Boy! Just look at the one that tried to get away! Wish you were here to see it! , Fish, Fishing & hunting gear, Fishing, Boats, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation). The Sokol (which translates as 'Falcon') arose as the first Czech Gymnastic organisation in the 1860s. Between the First and Second World Wars the organisation grew to have a million members. The Sokol programmes were organised to have mass appeal across all strata of Czech society and across all age groups. Miroslav Tyrs (183
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Sport Story Magazine: Six Men and a Mouse, Basketball
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College rowing crews - ten men representing various Universities holding oars
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Cartoon - Ottawa Olympics. John Collins (1917-2007)
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Color illustration from around 1910 by Adolf Karpellus depicting an ice skating and sports field at Cobenzl, showing participants and landscape.
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International Ski Competition Ma Achowski, Jan (1886 1917), lithographic de
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All Baseball Stories: Seven Big Diamond Thrillers, Baseball
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Central Park, Roller Skating, 1992, Anthony Butera, (b.20th C.), Monotype
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Matchbox labels, from the Swedish industrial and trading museum.Sport motif. Cycling, Golf, Rygby (The Bicycle, The Golf, The Rugby, The Tennis, The Cricket).
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Central Park Skate Emporium circa 1889.
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First day cover of the German Democratic Republic, winter sport in Oberhof, GDR 1952
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Artwork: "Playing Baseball". Artist: Sieger Hartgers. Catalog Number: 2.36.91, US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown
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USSR-CIRCA 1980: A stamp printed in the USSR, dedicated XIII Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid, skating, circa 1980
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Vintage Cover of Souvenir Year Book for the 1928 New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Team
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Cartoon - The Second Team Goes in. John Collins (1917-2007)
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London Olympics 1908 - Fourth International Olympiad - Franco British Exhibition - Vintage Olympic Poster
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HUNGARY - CIRCA 1987: a stamp printed in the Hungary shows jump from a springboard, 1988 Winter Olympics, Calgary, Canada, circa
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Sport Bitter, Liquor & Spirits
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The Olympian Games (Scribner's). Posters. 1896. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Olympics, Discus throwing
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The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona (two years before the Nazis came to power).
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Photograph inside of the lifestyle magazine La Vie au Grand Air; colour front cover showing the boxer named Bayle training for an international fishing competition.
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RUSSIA - CIRCA 1992: A stamp printed in Russia showing olympic games, circa 1992
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Kantharos depicting athletes running
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Colored poster by Carl Schnebel depicting 'Sport in the Picture', illustrating sports, society, and theater, created around 1910.
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VIET NAM - CIRCA 1982: A post stamp printed in Viet nam shows shows football, series devoted World Cup in Spain, circa 1982.
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Vintage, Coloured photograph of a cross country runner in France 1905
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Sports Equipment Poster.
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Anonymous. "Buttes-Chaumont park, James Sardner and his Jocko monkey". Lithography, 1890. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Advertising, circus, Paris, 19th arrondissement, park, dressage, acrobatics, a monkey suspended by the mouth with a stretched rope holds in each paw before a flag, of its back legs it holds a bar from which is suspended an acrobat, aerial view of a park with a lake, boats, a kiosk, a covered gallery, a belvedere on a heap of rocks Advertising poster, Eduilibriste, lithography, Buttes-Chaumont park, advertising, monkey jocko
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An American football player and a baseball player stand either side of the American eagle and flag. Date: circa 1914
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The official poster of the 1932 Olympic Games, which will be held in Los Angeles. September 09, 1931.
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Portada de la revista de pelota vasca Cancha. Méjico, 1947.
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Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Poster of the 'People's Olympic Games', which was to be held in Barcelona from 19th till 22th July 1939.
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Golf Monte Carlo, Golf
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Roller Skate for Health, Roller Skating
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Postage stamp printed in Canada, devoted to the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, shows freestyle
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CANADA - CIRCA 2001: stamp printed by Canada, shows World Figure Skating Championships, Vancouver, circa 2001
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CANADA - CIRCA 2001: stamp printed by Canada, shows World Figure Skating Championships, Vancouver, circa 2001
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Postage stamp from Guinea Bissau, depicting a luge racers, issued for the 1988 Calgary Olympic games.