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Images from the collections

Images about Sports

47 images from works
  • Athletics of the ancient world / [Edward Norman Gardiner].
  • Sandow's magazine of physical culture.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat standing on her hands.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Sarawak: two Kayans wrestling. Photograph.
  • The statement in French "I am HIV Positive. All you risk in playing sport with me, is to be beaten hands down"; an advertisement by L'agence de Prevention du SIDA Lutte contre l'Exclusion des séropositifs. Colour lithograph ca. 1996.
  • Plate in commemoration of W.G. Grace's "Century of Centuries"
  • Page 79: a pair a wrestlers with referee. Watercolour drawing.
  • Page 80: a pair of wrestlers. Watercolour drawing.
  • Page 50: a pair of wrestlers. Watercolour drawing.
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Works from the collections

424 works

    • Ephemera

    Price guide : a great range of activities / Camden Council.

    | Date: [2002]
    • Ephemera

    Travelcard : Paralympic Games : valid only on 03 Sep 2012 zones 123456789 : number.

    | Date: 2012
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two footballers tackling before a crowd of people holding yellow flowers: tobacco free sport campaign in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2002.

    | Date: [2002?] | Reference: 771920i
    • Books

    Play and health in medical literature / Alessandro Arcangeli.

    Arcangeli, Alessandro. | Date: [1985-]
    • Ephemera

    Athletics : Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park : 6 September, start time: 10:00.

    | Date: 2012
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Related topics

London
Persons with Disabilities
Paralympic Games
Exercise
2012 Summer Olympics
ParalympicsGB
Physical Fitness
United Kingdom
2012 Summer Paralympics
Olympics

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