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Niagara Falls, American Falls, Annie Edson Taylor

This is a poster of a woman golfer in 1907. It is interesting to notice that the outfit of the figure - a long dress and high heels - is not professional golf clothes. Her gesture looks relatively realistic but the overall expressive focuses more on…

Eugen Sandow was a bodybuilder and strongman who helped changed the male image in the late 1800s-early 1900s. He performed on multiple stages, showing off his strength and muscles to an audience of both men and women. Men could be inspired by his…

The picture itself is fairly "uneventful" the photo simply shows a team of Native Americans in their college football team. I believe that the strongest message that this imagery exhibits is that it shows the complete transition of culture for these…

The Metropolitans were founded in 1880 as an independent professional team by business entrepreneur John B. Day and baseball manager Jim Mutrie. Like New York area clubs, the team initially played its games in Brooklyn and in Hoboken, New Jersey.…

The ticket allowing admittance to the match between recognized champion John L. Sullivan and Jim Corbett, which would mark the end of both bareknuckle fighting as a major sport as Queensbury rules grew in popularity as well as the career of Sullivan,…

The image presented by this poster is intriguing because it combines the more low-brow entertainment of the sideshow with the victorian respectability of glove-boxing. But, as crude of a show as this might seem, or seem to be advertised, it is…

Belmont is one of the longest-running horse races in the country. Pictured is the raised grandstands. In accordance with Mullan's article, in which he quotes E.J. Hobsbawn as observing that "sport had become 'a mass spectacle... transformed into the…

This is a wood engraving print entitled, "Their Bridal Tour--At Niagara Falls" that was printed in Harper's Weekly on September 29th 1888. It depicts a man and woman in what appears to be an intimate conversation, while dressed in fancy clothes with…

In class we have discussed the agency of women in the Circus and at Exhibitions. From the readings little was said about the agency of women in Wild West Shows. Here I will explore my ideas about women in Wild West Shows in context of the item. In…