Editorial'The jockey club'. The History of the London clubs, or, The citizens pastime. London : printed for J. Bagnall, near Fleetstreet 1700's. Source: 10349.bbb.25 frontispiece.
EditorialTom Bradys rookie card set to fetch as much as $300,000 at auction as it joins slew of sports memorabilia from likes of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan at mega auction
EditorialMatch container, 1850-1900 This highly decorative match holder was made in England from African Blackwood around 1850-1900. Ornamental turnery was a popular pastime in the late Victorian period and many small trinkets were produced mainly from hard woo...
EditorialMatch container, 1850-1900 This highly decorative match holder was made in England from African Blackwood around 1850-1900. Ornamental turnery was a popular pastime in the late Victorian period and many small trinkets were produced mainly from hard woo...
EditorialMatch container, 1850-1900 This highly decorative match holder was made in England from African Blackwood around 1850-1900. Ornamental turnery was a popular pastime in the late Victorian period and many small trinkets were produced mainly from hard woo...
EditorialMatch container, 1850-1900 This highly decorative match holder was made in England from African Blackwood around 1850-1900. Ornamental turnery was a popular pastime in the late Victorian period and many small trinkets were produced mainly from hard woo...
EditorialMatch container, 1850-1900 This highly decorative match holder was made in England from African Blackwood around 1850-1900. Ornamental turnery was a popular pastime in the late Victorian period and many small trinkets were produced mainly from hard woo...
EditorialA bird flaps its wings during a singing competition in Paramaribo, Suriname, on Dec. 20, 2020. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times)
EditorialPouch (Forel), 14th century, French, Silk and metal thread on canvas., Overall: 8 3/4 x 8in. (22.2 x 20.3cm), Textiles-Embroidered, This embroidery illustrates either a popular story or a courtly pastime. A lady and gentleman stand beneath a tree; she ...
EditorialAlaina Hendrickson, 7, and her brother Aidan, 9, at the Marsh Halberg Sledding Hill in Chaska, Minn., on Dec. 14, 2019. (Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber/The New York Times)
EditorialWoman makes a sand painting, A seated woman (actor Segawa Kikunoj? V (1802-32) in an unknown woman role), makes a sand painting on a sheet of lacquerware. Next to the painting are two spoons, a wooden spatula and a paint box on the far left. The painti...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Archaic, ca. 560?550 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm), Vases, Cock between two men. Elbows Out, the Affecter's colleague, derives his name from his distinctive stylistic idiosyncrasy...
EditorialHarry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading chess player. The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport & pastime. London, 1896. Source: Cup.1253.d.18 page 137.
EditorialIn 1821 M. Landry of Fancy Repository, Greenwich, published this children’s game which gave prominence to the Great Charter. Described by its anonymous author as an ‘Instructive Pastime’, the game was designed to teach chivalry to younger people....
EditorialSiegbert Tarrasch (5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century. . The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of spor...
EditorialCharles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956), was an English polymath; an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer...
EditorialEmanuel Lasker, PhD (1868 – 1941). German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921). . The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport & pastime. London, 1896...
EditorialWilliam Henry Krause Pollock (21 February 1859– 5 October 1896). English chess master, and a surgeon. . The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport & pastime. London, 1896. Source: Cup.1253.d.18 page 138.
Editorial'The jockey club'. The History of the London clubs, or, The citizens pastime. London : printed for J. Bagnall, near Fleetstreet 1700's. Source: 10349.bbb.25 frontispiece.
EditorialMikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin);(12 November [O.S. 31 October] 1850 – 25 January [O.S. 12 January] 1908). Leading Russian chess player. . The Sportfolio. Portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport & pastime. London, 1896. ...
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 5 - A noblewoman walks near the out...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Archaic, ca. 560?550 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm), Vases, Cock between two men. Elbows Out, the Affecter's colleague, derives his name from his distinctive stylistic idiosyncrasy...
EditorialPouch (Forel), 14th century, French, Silk and metal thread on canvas., Overall: 8 3/4 x 8in. (22.2 x 20.3cm), Textiles-Embroidered, This embroidery illustrates either a popular story or a courtly pastime. A lady and gentleman stand beneath a tree; she ...