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Pioneers of women's sport, around 1890

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Pioneers of women's sport, around 1890

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Name:: Pioneers of women's sport, around 1890
Description:: German women gymnasts – women's Turner sections, like Sokol women's sections, were established only in the second half of the 1890s. Jitka Scholz
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Automatic description:: Two young women pose in matching dark athletic tunics with contrasting trim, belts, short trousers and stockings. Sporting equipment is arranged at their feet: wooden clubs or pins, several balls and a long foil or practice sabre.
Year:: Varnishing has been used for collodium wet process negatives (used before the year 1890) but certainly some of later gelatine based negatives are varnished as well (minimally to the year 1901).
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Author:: Šechtl & Voseček archive
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Keywords:: sport, figure, pair, woman, Indian clubs
Automatic keywords:: sportovní oděv, pair, mladé ženy, opasek, punčochy, sportovní náčiní, Indian clubs, koule, kord
Material:: negative12x16.5 varnished
Categories:: Portraits and figures of athletes
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Pioneers of women's sport, around 1890

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