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Left: The female wrestlers Alice Williams and Sadie Morgan wore functional athletic clothing as far as in 1891.
They stepped into the wrestling ring to compete over the "Police Gazette" champion title.
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Female wrestling near 1900 in a „Tingeltangel" (popular music hall) in Paris.
By a German collector.
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Left: Postcard before 1905.
Perhaps the wrestlers are Marie Beer and Julie Frank, who wrestled in 1901 at the European championships in Vienna.
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Female wrestling near 1900 in a "Tingeltangel" (popular music hall) in Paris.
By a German collector.
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Left: "Women wrestling", drawing by J. Sullivan, in the twenties.
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Wrestling scene
Sketch by Couturier in the night of 22nd March 1899 in the Elysee-Montmartre in Paris.
The real costumesе probably were not so permissive.
"Pleasures in the Belle Epoque" by Charles Rearick.
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Published in "Kampfes Lust" by Werner Sonntag
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Left: Duel of prostitutes
Water color by Paul Ballurian, a German painter, 1900s.
"The Female Regency in the History of Humanity" (translation of the German title), Vol. 4.
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French joke postcard with caricature of a mixed boxing match, which expresses female emancipation.
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Left: Caricature of the women wrestling, a serie of postcards by Rudolf Kristen, Germany. On the card there is a quotation by Goethe’s "Faust".
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Two caricatures of women's wrestling. German joke postcards from a set, about 1912.
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Left: Poster for female wrestling matches.
Color lithograph near 1906.
By a German collector.
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Advertising postcard of an International original female wrestling tournament.
Annetta Verona, the chief, was been a famous wrestler.
Postcard between 1905 and 1914.
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Left: Wrestling team.
Unmarked postcard from North Germany, after 1905
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The female wrestling tournaments were so popular that they became the object of parody.
The male Bennewitz singers from the German fair town Leipzig pretend being female wrestlers.
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Posing? It seems so. But it indicated that people were interested in female boxing.
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Advertising picture of Lucien Choury from La Garenne (Seine) in France. May be in the fifties.
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Left: A page about female boxing in the German manual by Joe Edwards "Boxing. A Fencing with Natural Weapons" (translation of the German title)
Published in 1912.
The captions in German said: Frau Rose Edwards (the author's wife) delivers a direct punch; Body blow; Avoid punch to head.
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"Catfight" in a tournament of DWW in Hungary.
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Photo by Werner Sonntag
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Left: The female professional boxers Max Devereaux (left) and Betty Kalmer in a lightweight championship in 1922.
There were 10000 spectators there.
Collection Francoise and Serge Laget in "Le Grand Livre du Sport Feminin" (The Big Book of the Feminine Sport").
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Female boxing in Nicaragua. Published in "Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung" No. 6, 1927
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Left: The caption to this cartoon of the 1920-s has some trace of sexism that we can see also in the presence: "She can punch me how she wills, but I have the smaller glove size."
Drawing by Rudi Keller
Published in Magnus Hirschfeld’s "History of Morals after the World War I" (free translation of the German title).
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The German caricaturist Karl Arnold in the famous German satire magazine "Simplizissimus" saw the connection between boxing and sadism.
In the caption to this caricature a woman-spectator (prostitute?) asks her neighbor: "Are you an athlete too or only a sadist?"
"The Female Regency in the History of Humanity" (translation of the German title), Vol. 4
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Published in "Kampfes Lust" by Werner Sonntag
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Left: The dentist Dr. Walter Zschiegner in Berlin in the wrestling training while the early thirties It seems his group of women was the first private wrestling and boxing group in Europe. Picture by a German collector.
His wife Hildegard also was a good wrestler and boxer. Below the two photographs shows Hildegard training and wrestling in the Zschiegner's team.
Photos by The French collector Michel Bezy, who corresponded with Zschiegner.
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Wrestling in the group of Dr. Walter Zschiegner.
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