Professor Welton’s Boxing Cats (1894)
Footage, filmed in Thomas Edison’s studio in 1894, showing two cats wearing boxing gloves and packing a punch, part of Professor Welton’s cat circus….more
19th Century
Engravings from a French Ice-Skating Manual (1813)
Coloured engravings from France’s first ice-skating manual Le Vrai Patineur (The True Skater) written by Jean Garcin, a book praised in Honoré de Balzac’s Illu…more
Posed Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Stars
Selection of studio posed photographs from the New York Public Library’s Spalding Collection, a series of over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and p…more
Tennis with Muybridge (1887)
Plates 294 to 299 of Eadweard Muybridge’s groundbreaking collection from 1887 titled Animal Locomotion….more