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Concept

Wrestling

Images

  • George Hackenschmidt, a wrestler. Process print, 190-.
  • Two wrestlers facing off. Photographic postcard by Walery, 190-.
  • Two naked men face one another, grapple, one forces the other to the ground then lowers himself on top of him. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Ferdinand Gruhn and George Hackenschmidt performing a wrestling move. Process print, 19--.
  • Sarawak: two Kayans wrestling. Photograph.
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Catalogue

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    Page 83: wrestlers. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 651524i
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    Two of the Raicevich brothers, wrestlers. Photographic postcard, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 2046839i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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    The wrestler Constant Lavaux "le Boucher" performing a wrestling move on George Hackenschmidt by holding him upside down. Process print after Walery, 190-.

    Walery. | Date: [between 1900 and 1909?] | Reference: 2046770i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Ephemera

    Free! If you act at once : my outline courses, telling the secrets of jiu jitsu, boxing, wrestling, balancing and performing feats of strength ... / Charles Atlas.

    Atlas, Charles, 1893-1972. | Date: [1939]
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    Two naked men face one another and grapple: one lifts the other, swinging him round his body on to the ground then lowers himself on top of him. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005833i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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