Wrestling Collection (page 2)

Territorial duels between Botocudo tribesmen, Brazil
Territorial duels between Botocudo tribesmen including wrestling and stick fighting to decide a hunting ground violation. River Belmonte, Brazil

Chinese wrestler and automaton and a tom-tom player, Qing Dynasty. Street performer wrestling with a human-size pasteboard puppet

Two Kayan wrestlers of Borneo, SE Asia (then part of the British Empire) - a popular sport with the older boys and men of the tribe. 1922

Wrestling match, Curzon Hall, Birmingham, UK
Opening of a wrestling match between Sol Davies and Hippy Homer, Curzon Hall, Suffolk Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK, 15 June 1908. Date: 1908

MONTMARTRE WRESTLING
A genteel audience of Parisians enjoy a wrestling match between a man and a woman; anything goes in Montmartre... Date: 1901

FRENCH WRESTLER 1850
A fearsome-looking French wrestler. Date: 1850

PERSIAN WRESTLING
Persian wrestlers struggle against each other, watched by several soldiers. Date: ancient

MEDIEVAL WRESTLING C14
Various techniques used in medieval wrestling. Date: 14th century

JAPANESE WRESTLING 1865
A bout of Sumo wrestling is watched closely by both the referee and a large crowd. Date: 1865

OXFORD GYM ACTIVITIES
Various activities in progress at the Oxford Gymnasium, including climbing, fencing, weightlifting and wrestling. Date: 1859

WRESTLING 1880s
Seven studies of two men wrestling. Date: 1880s

Jakob Koch (1871 - 1918), German amateur wrestler. Date: 1905

People wearing Cornish tartan, Cornwall
Four people wearing Cornish tartan, kilts and sporrans in a grassy area during a Cornish wrestling event, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Cyanide Sid Cooper and Chris Adams, wrestlers
Cyanide (or Cry Baby) Sid Cooper and black belt Chris Adams, taking part in a professional wrestling bout in the open air, Penlee Park, Penzance, Cornwall. Adams gets a submission from Cooper

A trying moment
Young girl wrestling away her golly from the jaws of a white terrier. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1911

Tom Jenkins (1872 - 1957), American catch wrestler who held the American Heavyweight Championship three times around the turn of the 20th century

French colonization of Algeria. Siege of Constantine, 21 to 27 November, 1836. French Huntsmen of Africa attacking the arabs leaving the camp at Sidi-Tantam. Engraving. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan

Capture of the Algerian corsair xebec L Uccello by the Genoese galleys Taggia and San Giorgio on August 11, 1788 near San Remo. Engraving. ITALY. LIGURIA. Genoa. Pegli. Navy Museum

Serbo-Bulgarian War, 14-28 November 1885. Bulgarian Soldiers taking a position in Tzaribrod (now Dimitrovgrad) in Serbia. Illustration by Richard Caton Woodville after sketch by M

Cyanide Sid Cooper, wrestler, talking to members of the crowd. Date: 1980s

Don Bradman wrestling
Australian cricketer and batsman, Don Bradman enjoying another sporting pursuit, wrestling with Jim Deakin, a well-known Australian wrestler. Date: 1931

The Empress Hall, Earls Court, 1948 London Olympic Games
The Empress Hall at Earls Court was the venue for Olympic wrestling and weight-lifting. Date: 1948

Charles Waterton, crocodile wrestling
Charles Waterton (1782-1865), naturalist and traveller, seen here crocodile wrestling. 19th century

Jacob wrestling with the Angel - Genesis 33. circa 1690

Alex Aberg - Estonian Wrestler
Aleksander Richard Aberg (1881-1920) - Russian-Estonian professional Greco-Roman and free-style wrestling world champion of the early 20th century. Date: circa 1910

Two men wrestling. Date: 1960s

Mosaic, 4th century. Roman gladiator. Thracians
Roman art. Mosaic, 4th century. Roman gladiator. Thracians (small rectangular shield called a parmula and short sword called sica and armoured greaves

Illustration, two men wrestling in the open air, watched by a circle of spectators. Date: 1832

Territorial duels between Botocudo men, Bahia.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Greek War of Independence (1821-1832). Battle of Navarino, October 20th, 1827. Victory of the British and French fleet on the ottoman. Engraving

Die Herren der Welt (The Masters of the World. When the kings of industry are mad, the common people suffer), cover of Simplicissimus magazine, 1922. Critique of the power of big industries

Tapestry of Pastrana. Afonso V of Portugal
Tapestry of Pastrana. end 15th c. Disembarkation in Asilah of 1470. Detail of the King Afonso V of Portugal. Flemish art. Tapestry. SPAIN. CASTILE-LA MANCHA. GUADALAJARA. Pastrana

United States (1811). Battle of Tippecanoe
United States. Battle of Tippecanoe (4th November, 1811). General Harrison soldiers fight against Tecumseh indians

Japanese art
The Revenge of the Soga Brothers. 17th c. Detail of the screen with figures of samurais. Japanese art. Tokugawa shogunate period. Painting. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Museum of Oriental Art

Wrestling on horseback, Indian troops at Salonika, WW1
A wrestling match while riding mules - Indian troops at a Sports meeting held at Salonika during the First World War. Date: 1916

Japanese Sumo Wrestler in traditional pose. Date: circa 1950s

An Ukhara, with a view of the British Residents camp. From: Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809. Date: 1813

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

Wrestling Tackle
A wrestling hold under the chin and around the neck! Date: 1960s

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

Black Ahmed - Champion Wrestler
Black Ahmed (Cara Achmed) - a champion wrestler from Constantinople, wearing a champions sash and bearing the medals of his victories with pride

Old Olympics / Pancratium
The Pancratium: two boys wrestling

Wrestling match in Madagascar
Audience around a wrestling match between two men in Madagascar. Date: circa 1910

Sumo wrestling match, Japan, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Temple of Ramses III. Relief depicting wrestling. Egypt
Temple of Ramses III. Relief depicting wrestling. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Horse-Drawn Trams, Iom
Horse-drawn trams at Douglas, Isle of Man, one advertising wrestling, the other advertising an Open Air Barbecue. Date: 1960s

Wrestling in Japan 1860S
Two Sumo wrestlers compete in front of a large crowd. Date: 1860s

Little John wrestles at gamewell
Robin wrestles Will Stuteley at Gamewell

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