Category: 1890s

1902 Freshman Basket-Ball Team

“1902 Freshman Basket-Ball Team” (Smith College: Northampton, Mass.) Unknown American commercial photographer (possibly Amand Joseph “A.J.” Schillare. Cyanotype presented as triptych within album leaf : ca. 1898. From: PhotoSeed Archive via PhotoSeed Blog

Senda Berenson Abbot, ca. 1898

Unknown American photographer: cyanotype: ca. 1897-99. “Miss Berenson” (Senda Berenson Abbott: 1868-1954), known as the ‘’Mother of Women’s Basketball” Berenson was first hired as a gymnastics instructor at Smith College before becoming the Director of the Gymnasium and Instructor of Physical Culture there, adapting the first rules of women’s basketball in 1892. The game had been invented less than a year earlier by James Naismith in nearby Springfield, Mass. By 1899, Berenson had codified her rules for the women’s game, and in 1901, they were published in the volume “Basket Ball for Women” by Spalding’s Athletic Library. From: PhotoSeed Archive via Photoseed Blog

Pythia, Jugend, 1896

J.R. Witzel :: Pythia. Also a three-legged stool affaire. Jugend Magazin, 1896. Nº 50. | src Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
I. Preis im Wettbeweib VI der Jugend: "Pythia". Auch eine Dreifuß-Affaire. J.R. Witzel (München) I. Prize in the competition VI of Jugend: "Pythia". Also a three-legged stool affaire J.R. Witzel (Munich). From: Jugend, 1896. Nº 50. | src Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
I. Preis im Wettbeweib VI der Jugend: “Pythia”. Auch eine Dreifuß-Affaire. J.R. Witzel (München)
I. Prize in the competition VI of Jugend: “Pythia”. Also a three-legged stool affaire
J.R. Witzel (Munich). From: Jugend, 1896. Nº 50. | src Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
J.R. Witzel :: Pythia. Also a three-legged stool affaire. Jugend Magazin, 1896. Nº 50. | src Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Lait Pur de la Vingeanne (1894)

Theòphile-Alexandre Steinlen :: Lait Pur Stérilisé de la Vingeanne (1894). From: Posters; a critical study of the development of poster design in continental Europe, England and America by Charles Matlack Price (1913) New York: G.W. Bricka. | src Smithsonian Libraries @ internet archive

The Century magazine, 1897

Maxfield Parrish :: The Century magazine. Poster for Midsummer Holiday Number, August 1897. From: Posters; a critical study of the development of poster design in continental Europe, England and America by Charles Matlack Price (1913) New York: G.W. Bricka. | src Smithsonian Libraries @ internet archive

Poster Calendar (1897)

Edward Penfield :: Poster Calendar (1897). From: Posters; a critical study of the development of poster design in continental Europe, England and America by Charles Matlack Price (1913) New York: G.W. Bricka. | src Smithsonian Libraries @ internet archive