Sports Collection (#82)

Edgar Mobbs, rugby international
Lieutenant Colonel Edgar R. Mobbs, D.S.O. Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO (1882 - 1917) was an English rugby union footballer who played for and captained Northampton R.F.C. and England

Rock climbing near Porthcurno, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Cadillac Vintage Two Seater Sports Car, Purley, England
Cadillac Vintage Two Seater Sports Car, Purley, near Croydon, Surrey, England. Date: 1934

Peace day Sports - Tug of war Date: 1918

Peace day Sports. Line of students balancing books on heads Date: 1918

Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
View inside the Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, full of spectators watching a game of American football. Date: circa 1915

Sports arena, Fort Devens, Massachusetts, USA
Sports arena, Fort Devens, a military installation in Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Race track and grandstand, Springfield, Mass, USA
Race track and grandstand, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield, Mass, USA. Date: circa 1930

Harvard-Yale Game, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Crowds of people going to the Harvard-Yale Game (American football) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with a view of the Stadium in the distance. Date: circa 1908

Pat O Keefe, WW1
British boxer and Middle Weight boxing champion of England, Pat O Keefe (1183-1960) pictured after joining the 1st Surrey Rifles and assisting the training of troops at Camberwell in 1915. Date: 1915

Five men on a bobsleigh, Switzerland. Date: early 20th century

Night view of Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Mo, USA
Night view of the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, built in the 1930s in art deco style. Date: 1938

Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Aerial view of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA -- claimed to be the greatest race course in the world. Date: circa 1930

Group photo of a baseball team, Wisconsin, USA
Group photo of a baseball team and their manager, Wisconsin, USA. The players names include: Weaver, McIntyre, Lohr, Holmes, Gail, Richardson, McMahon, Cousins, Anderson and Davis. Date: circa 1908

Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lawn Tennis Grounds and Conservatory, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Date: circa 1908

Country club, Gorham, New Hampshire, USA
Club House of the Androscoggin Valley Country Club, Gorham, White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1926

Doyle Stadium Field, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
Aerial view of Doyle Stadium Field, Leominster, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1930s

A. F. Wilding, Wimbledon champ, demonstrates tennis strokes
Double page spread from The Sketch magazine featuring the New Zealand-born four times Wimbledon tennis champion, Anthony Wilding demonstrating various strokes, shots and grips

Encyclopaedia of Sport - Tickling the Dugong
VII. Tickling for Dugong on the plains of Oudh. Another unusual and fanciful sport from the imagination of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Lord Lonsdale
Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, KG, GCVO (25 January 1857 13 April 1944) English nobleman and sportsman. An avid sports enthusiast and bon vivant

Encyclopaedia of Sport - Luring Wild Lap-Dogs
IV - Luring wild lap-dogs by the Mull of Cantire. Another wacky sport from the imagination of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Small boy keeping goal in Balham, SW London
Small boy keeping goal in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Small boy with football in Balham, SW London
Small boy catching a football in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Two men with five dogs in a garden. Date: circa 1920s

King Alfonso XIII shooting in a skirt
King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941), King of Spain captured at a shooting party wearing what appears to be a skirt but is in fact a shooting apron. Date: 1914

Georges Carpentier in La Grand Revue Femmes et Sports, Palace Theatre, Paris, 1927 Date: 1927

Birds-Eye View of Ascot Race-Course
A Bird s-eye view of Ascot racecourse in 1914 by W. B. Robinson in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Date: 1914

La Grand Revue Femmes et Sports, Palace Theatre, Paris, 1927
Brochure cover for La Grand Revue Femmes et Sports, Palace Theatre, Paris, 1927 Date: 1927

Society greyhound racing enthusiasts
Greyhound racing enthusiasts - lady owners of dogs in 1927 just as the sport was gaining widespread popularity among society

Sketch front cover - Lili de Alvarez
Lili D Alvarez, Spanish tennis player, famous not just for her game but for wearing shocking culottes designed by Schiaparelli on court at Wimbledon in 1931. Date: 1927

Group photo, RAOC Mustapha football team, Egypt, WW1
Group photo, RAOC (Royal Army Ordnance Corps) Mustapha Barracks football team, Alexandria, Egypt. Date: 1918-1919

Rodeo scene at Victor, Colorado, USA
Rodeo scene at Victor (south of Cripple Creek), Colorado, USA, with horses, riders and spectators. Date: circa 1910

Rodeo at Victor, Colorado, USA, showing Abe Humphrey of Cripple Creek riding Skyscraper. Date: circa 1910

Two boy scouts fencing at camp
Two boy scouts fencing in a field at camp. Date: 20th century

Football team, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, USA
Group photo of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange football team, Louisiana, USA. At the time they were playing charity games to raise money for poor children of the city. circa 1910

Silhouette of contrasting transport, 1874 and 1924, by H.L. Oakley, in Tennis magazine, 24 July 1924. Above: a group of people arriving at a country house by horse-drawn carriage in 1874

Silhouette of people playing tennis on a sunny day, by H.L. Oakley. Date: circa 1920s

Horseracing - Passing the Stands at Ascot
Spectators crane their necks to see horses and their riders gallop past the stands at Ascot. Date: 1920

Looking Down at Epsom: A Finish for the Derby
View of the Derby with horses and their jockeys striving towards the finishing line, and with the stands, tents and cars of visitors seen beyond. Date: 1928

Leaving the Paddock, off to the post for the Derby
The scene in the ring of the paddock at Epsom as the Derby horses prepare to leave on their way to the post, or starting line. Date: 1928

The Great Water Joke by H. M. Bateman
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing horses and their jockeys finding that the other side of a water jump is substantially higher than the side from where they took off

The Bystander Christmas Number, 1929
Inside front cover of The Bystander Christmas Number 1929 featuring a page of vignettes showing entertainment and nightlife scenes, while in the centre, two dandyish chaps sip champagne. Date: 1929

Society at Grosvenor House ice rink, 1929
Fashionable society taking up a fashionable pastime in 1929. An impression of the splendid ice rink at Grosvenor House by Helen McKie. Date: 1929

Bystander masthead 1929, society at an ice rink
Lovely illustrated design by Howard K. Elcock for The Bystander magazines masthead depicting fashionable society at an ice rink

Skating suit from Harrods, 1929
A practical skating suit for wearing to the rinks of fashionable winter resorts. The blouse is of black stockinette, relieved with black and white to match the check skirt

The Bystander front cover, Winter Sports number 1929
Front cover of The Bystander magazines winter sports number featuring a society gathering on the piste for some ski action in 1929. Date: 1929

Debenham & Freebody advert, Diana Mitford
Advertisement for smart celes sports jumpers from the department store Debenham and Freebody in Wigmore Street, London, featuring an illustration of a model who looks curiously like Diana Mitford in

D�de loter�y expresiones de jugadores en los
Dic de loteric y expresiones de jugadores en los dic; de ella.... (Lottery Day. Expressions of players in the days...). Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo de Historia

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