Vintage Sports Illustrations

Classic illustrations feature various sports activities from the 20th century, including cricket, football, and skating with a humorous tone.

Pofessional golfer Henry Cotton, 1907- 1987. Henry Cotton became a professional golfer at 17, he won the British Open three times in his career. During World War II he organised golf matches in aid of the Red Cross. He was known to be a flamboyant character, with a love for the finer things in life. Before his death in 1988 he accepted a knighthood which was awarded on the day that he died. 1928

Cartoon - Who's Going to Carry the Ball . John Collins (1917-2007)

Close up of Kid Nichols grip , Baseball players, Baseballs, Boston Red Sox Baseball team. Michael T. -Nuf Ced- McGreevy Collection

Illustration depicting people skating on a frozen lake. Dated 19th century

Cordang Triumphator, Petrus van Geldorp, 1900 Amsterdam paper historical persons. bicycle racing. political caricatures and satires

Humorous illustration by Joyce Dennys showing a long trail of sledges populated by all types of personalities enjoying winter sports in St. Moritz. Date: 11th January 1928

A German husband and wife team perform a dramatic tightrope cycling act Date: 1932

Unexpected in Baseball, Baseball

Chicago team. 1870 - 1919. Spalding, A. G. (Albert Goodwill). Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Baseball, Baseball

Illustration of two boxers fighting in a ring. French, 193

Cartoon - Benched !. John Collins (1917-2007)

'Attractive Athletics', 1877. Artist: Priestman Atkinson

Cartoon - Touch Football Doesn't Seem to Be Catching on in Europe. John Collins (1917-2007)

Posters, France, 20th century. Casino de Paris Championnat international de lutte. International wrestling championship, illustration by Pal (Jean de Paleologue, 1855-1942) for Paris Casino, circa 1900.

Gymnastics (2); New Dutch childrens prints; Funke's prints. Sheet with 30 shows of boys demonstrating sports and gymnastics exercises. Numbered at the top right: No. 94.

Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998), American tennis player and eight times winner of the Ladies Singles at Wimbledon, pictured in 1927, where she was tipped to win - and she did, beating Lili d'Alvarez in the final 6-2 6-4. Date: 1927

Man Catching Fish in River. ca. 1936, USA, 'GOT 'IM'

Golfers, William Nicholson, 1898 print Print is part of a book. Illustration in calendar month on the opposite leaf. paper golf. calendar, almanac

Winter Sports in the Dunes In the Indiana Dunes National Park, Couple cross-country skying. Poster from the South Shore Line railroad between South Bend, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois, highlighting locations along the railway. 1920s

Cleaning up at the Saratoga races! , Sports & recreation facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Go to Gamages for your Games, cricket

An engraving depicting a tentative cyclist. Dated 19th century

Gymnastics II, Praktischer Hausschatz der Heilkunde, II. volume, 1930, Heinrich Killinger, Nordhausen

From the magazine La Vie au Grand Air (Life in the Outdoors); Black and white cover photograph dated 25 August 1904 of participants on the route of the Toulouse-Paris running race.

Two lawn tennis costumes for October, 1905. Artist: Unknown.

J & P. Coats Best Six Cord, 200 yds, 8, always ahead, "Catch on to this". J & P. Coats Best Six Cord, 200 yds, 8, always ahead, "Catch on to this"

City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting testing for tuberculosis and showing two athletes hurdling barriers 'malnutrition' and 'heart disease' and a third athlete stumbling over the barrier 'tuberculosis' on their way to the finish line 'good health.'.

Cartoon - I'd Like Some Advice on Touch-Football. John Collins (1917-2007)

An elegant woman soars towards the bar during a pole vault. Date: 1927

J.H. Taylor, James Braid and Harry Vardon were collectively known as the Great Triumvirate due to their domination of golf for twenty years

Portada de la revista de deportes Aire libre. Barcelona, enero de 1925.

Animal locomotion. Plate 526 , Women, Nudes, Tennis, Lifting & carrying, Kicking, Weight lifting, Fighting, Human locomotion, an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements

Color print by Otto Barth from 1910 depicting winter sports in the Styrian Salzkammergut, showing skiers, snow-covered landscape, and sporting activity.

A front cover illustration of a pair of skiers, one looking rather more confident than the other. 16th November 1938

Gymnastics (2), 1875 - 1903 print Leaf with 30 performances of boys who demonstrate sports and gymnastics exercises. Numbered at the top right: No. 94. publisher: Utrechtprinter: Haarlem paper letterpress printing gymnastic exercises with apparatuses. parallel bars (gymnastics). vaulting horse (gymnastics). rings (gymnastics). high-jumping (athletics, gymnastics). horizontal bar (gymnastics)

Front cover of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, featuring a jockey during a race, in recognition of the forthcoming Derby, on which the paper comprehensively reported. Date: 1928

The Boxing blade, Vol. 4, no. 32. text. Periodicals, Illustrations, Photographs. 1923-07-14. General Research Division. Boxing, Boxers (Sports)

Casey at the bat , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Casey at the bat , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A man scything. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Punching Quartet, Boxing

J & P. Coats Best Six Cord, 200 yds, 8, always ahead, 'Catch on to this' , Boys, Sailboats, Thread, Cotton, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Quintain exercises, 14th century. A man attempts to unseat a man on a stool with his leg, a man on a swing attempts to unseat a man on a stool with his leg, and two men with their feet together attempt to pull a stick from the other. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

'C. E. Malfroy - Low Forehand Drive', c1935. Creator: Unknown.

Etching engraving handmade style illustration of a strongman circus performer lifting barbell on one hand and kettlebell on the other hand set on isolated white background. . Strongman Lifting Barbell Kettlebell Etching

880 or Fight, Track & Field

Thrilling Sports: Basketball, Basketball

Cartoon - And Still Champion !. John Collins (1917-2007)

This 1912 color print by Jules-Ami Courvoisier depicts the Swiss national ski races in La Chaux-de-Fonds, showing skiers, race course, spectators, and snow-covered landscape.

Monogrammist HS (writer: 1790), Northern Netherlands, Image of the Modern Skater, as he performed his Exercise, between The Hague and Scheveningen, in the presence of thousands of spectators, Roller Skater, 1790, verso - stamped, The Swiss roller skater who gave a demonstration of the roller skating, on the road between The Hague and Scheveningen. With details of the left and right roller skate. On the sheet below the plate a four-verse poem and in a footnote a story about the Moroccan ambassador., print, picture, news print, prints, pictures, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 310 mm, width 165 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1790 - 1790, paper, papier, etching, etchings, letterpress printing, hand colouring, writer

Serie Wintersport, das Eisstockschießen, Alpenländer / Series winter sports, the curling, Alpine countries, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei, genaues Datum unbekannt.

Cartoon - "Start the Game Before He Learns How to Skate". John Collins (1917-2007)

Different athletic outfits on be worn for different races; paper chase, flat race and one mile chase costumes are seen here. Date: late 19th century

Color illustration from around 1910 by Ivo Puhonny depicting winter sports in Triberg, showing athletes, snow, and sporting activity.

12 Sports Aces: Build up for a Basket Letdown, Basketball

Comrades, let's do morning exercises! by Tereshchenko, Nikolai Ivanovich (1924-2005)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1952/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ 55,5x82/ History,Poster and Graphic design

The Boxing blade, Vol. 4, no. 37. text. Periodicals, Illustrations, Photographs. 1923-08-18. General Research Division. Boxing, Boxers (Sports)

Olympic Games 1916 Amsterdam Stadium 31 Aug.-3 Sept., Willy Sluiter, 1916 poster Poster Voro The National Olympic Games of 1916 in Amsterdam paper

Picture series Jockey Barometer, the jockey and his sponsor, 3rd prize, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

They'll do it every time... by Hatlo. We aren't quite sure whether the guy who issues the lockers at the gym has got a sense of humor or whether he's just plain low-down ornery , Locker rooms, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Picked a winner! on Miami's 'long shot' , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A gay brunette exercises on the rings. Date: 1927

Cartoon - Korean League Rules. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Doubles Team. John Collins (1917-2007)

Sports Novels Magazine: March 1949, Basketball

1933 cartoon , Football players, Coaches Athletics, Lawrence High School Lawrence, Mass.

Club Swinging, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Club Swinging, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400647

Cartoon - Summer Sports. John Collins (1917-2007)

The Boxing blade, Vol. 4, no. 47. text. Periodicals, Illustrations, Photographs. 1923-10-27. General Research Division. Boxing, Boxers (Sports)

Color print by Otto Barth from 1912 depicting the K.K. Horticulture and International Winter Sports Exhibition in Vienna, showing exhibition halls, displays, and attendees.

Battledore and Shuttlecock (shown here in earl y 1900s)was a game similar to what we know today as badminton.

La Chaine Simpson Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901 French) Lithograph

GDR - CIRCA 1987: a stamp printed in GDR shows Bowling, 11th Children’s and Youths’ Spartakiade, circa 1987

Football. A Princeton football player prepares to punt the ball, color lithograph, H.G. Laskey, artist, 1902

Medieval bowling. Two men playing bowls, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

illustration of a World war two soldier parachuting pulling cord. World war two soldier parachuting pulling cord

VII Federal Gymnastics Competition by Carpanetto, Giovanni Battista (1863-1928) / Private Collection / 1907 / Italy / Colour lithograph / Poster and Graphic design / Art Nouveau

Artwork: "Playing Volleyball I". Artist: Sieger Hartgers. Catalog Number: 2.15.91, US Army Art Collection. Country: Unknown

A 1911 colored poster depicting the Sports Hotel in Oberwiesenthal, Saxony, located in the Erzgebirge region, highlighting tourism and recreation.

Lamline, Portland Team, baseball card portrait

Orient Cycles, Lead The Leaders, Waltham M'F'G Co.. Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925. text. Posters. 1895. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. United States, Bicycles & tricycles

Advertisement for the Kinora, which, without lantern or screen shows "living" pictures taken with a hand camera and, according to the ad, is likely to improve many player's "form" in all kinds of sport, including, it appears, golf. Date: 1911

Western Story Magazine: On the Range, Wild West

Posters, France, 20th century. Sports d'hiver Chamonix Mont Blanc. Winter sports, illustration by Abel Faivre (1867-1945).

H.Cour, cane teacher, baton and French boxing H.Cour, cane professor, stick and French boxing ". Poster. Lithograph N. and B.

Poster National Riding and Spring Turner of the Vienna Rider Association, Unknown

Roller Skating for Health and Enjoyment, Roller Skating

Dumb-Bell Raising, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Dumb-Bell Raising, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400651

Wave to the Champ, Boxing

Bowling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 1889 Issued by Goodwin & Company The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.. Bowling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes 400642

Paris 1924 - Vintage Olympic Games Poster - Javelin

Player Drives Past Falling Defender, Hockey

VIET NAM - CIRCA 1982: A post stamp printed in Viet nam shows shows football, series devoted World Cup in Spain, circa 1982.

Dime Sports: Boy Wonder, Baseball

USSR - CIRCA 1963: stamp printed in the USSR (Russia) shows football with the inscription and name of a series ´1963, Third Games of people of the USSR´, circa 1963

USSR-CIRCA 1980: A stamp printed in the USSR, dedicated XIII Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid, figure skating, circa 1980

Jockey Jim Ballad, Horses - Riding & Racing

PEOPLE BIGH OF THE INDIVIDUAL STRESSAL COMPETITION FROM THE SSV SSC Union Pistol Kramer, Paul

Collier's: Tennis Collision, Tennis

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