Grapple Collection

Swiss Wrestlers at a National Festival - May, 1904
Swiss Wrestlers at a National Festival at Montreux - 8th May, 1904 Date: 1904

English gentleman arguing with his wife over money in the dining room. She throws a cup of coffee at him and dashes a tray of crockery to the floor

Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist. I ve been throw Hollan, Spain and France, An at Vienna learn d to dance

LA GOULUE / PJOURNAL 1904
LA GOULUE (Louise Weber) French entertainer and her animal-tamer husband grapple with a puma in a cage Date: 1870 - 1929

Sam and Carter Livesey - The Village Blacksmith
Sam Livesey (18731936) a British film and stage actor and his brother Carter (or Joseph) Livesey (rear). Here the brothers perform in their joint touring production of The Village Blacksmith

Roman Wrestling
Two Roman wrestlers grapple for supremacy. Date: ancient

Expansionist tendencies
Germany(a roaring Kasier Wilhem II), Britain(Edward VII) and the Balkans grapple for control of territory. Russia(Tsar Nicolas II)smokes nonchalantly

Harpagophytum procumbens, grapple plant
African grapple plant seed. For seed dispersal, the seeds have grappling hooks which hook onto animals and get transported elsewhere untill they eventually fall off

Scene at a rugby match, with two players colliding. circa 1940s

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: on board the Great Eastern, the crew prepares for the final attempt to grapple the lost telegraph cable which had snapped at the beginning of August

India - Native wrestlers
Native wrestlers practising in India

Izmir (Smyrna) - Turkish Wrestlers
Wrestlers at Izmir, Turkey. Yagli gures (Turkish wrestling) is the Turkish national sport. It is commonly known as oil wrestling (sometimes as grease wrestling)

Izmir, Turkey - Wrestling match
A wrestling match between African and a Turkish professional wrestlers at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - posted from the Russian Post office to Lyon from Smyrna by a French tourist

The Cable Lost
The broken cable is lost, and all attempts to grapple and retrieve it fail : the Great Eastern will have to return to England, and prepare to try again

Grappling Broken Cable
Crew and engineers cluster in the bows of the Great Eastern as a final attempt is made to grapple the broken cable from the sea-bed

Indian Wrestling
Above, two Indian wrestlers grapple each other in a bout; below, two dromadaries do much the same thing

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