No. 862
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
April 21, 2026

Their Daily Bath.

Girls Enjoying Their Daily Bath - An Inducement For Young Men to Go West.
April 21, 2026
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Tag: Sports

Shark Fishing off Cobb's Island, Virginia.

Aquatic Sport on the Virginia Coast.

7/7/2024

Crowds Watch the Bicycle Race.

Wheelers break records in the six-day contest in Madison Square Garden, New York.

1/9/2024

Sport on the Brain.

Puck's American Phrenological Chart for the Season.

5/30/2023

Skating in Central Park.

1/10/2023

Forex news live

Two female athletes at Virginia City, Nevada, indulge in a wrestling match for the championship.

11/9/2021

Great Base Ball Match.

Great baseball match between the Atlantic and Boxford Clubs of Brooklyn.

4/23/2018

Tennis.

"Who wants to pway me a couple of wattling stwong games?"

6/5/2017

Athletics.

Athletics

8/23/2016

Killed by a Baseball.

John Walters, of Richmond, Indiana becomes a victim of his love for the national game.

4/5/2016

A Winter Scene.

Winter Pastime – A Skating Scene.

1/25/2016

Fierce Football.

The great game recently played between teams representing the colleges of Princeton and Yale, on the former's grounds, Thanksgiving Day.

11/23/2015

The Bicycle Tournament at Springfield, Mass.

Perhaps the most successful bicycle tournament ever held in this country was that which opened at Springfield, Mass., on Tuesday, September 18th, 1883, and continued for three days.

9/29/2015

Yachting.

Yachting.

8/3/2015

Skating in Central Park.

Winter sports in the metropolis—a skating scene in Central Park.

2/9/2015

Belle Gordon.

9/29/2014

The Girls Have a New Game.

8/18/2014

Tennis.

7/14/2014

Tobogganing.

1/7/2014

Collegians at Football.

12/10/2013

The Last Dip of the Season.

Water witches who frolic with Neptune, no matter how cold his embrace.

9/3/2013

Baseball Animals.

Cigarette cards, 1880s, 1890s

5/14/2013

George Dixon’s Victory over Australian Billy.

2/26/2013

John L. Sullivan Saved by a Neck.

11/6/2012

A One Legged Baseball Club.

9/11/2012

Pretty Female Billiardists

1/3/2012
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Their Daily Bath.

Daily-Bath

Lafayette, Ind., Girls Enjoying their Daily Bath in the River—An Inducement for Young Men to Go West.

The Lafayette (Ind.) papers are complaining in right earnest because troops of girls go swimming in conspicuous places in the river near that town. Many people suppose the paragraph is probably merely a device of Lafayette newspapers to draw the attention of clergymen on vacations and other pleasure seekers to the charms of Lafayette as a watering place, but the journalist do not exaggerate the matter at all, as we are reliably informed that any fair day, scores of beautiful maidens enjoy a bath, regardless of the comment of the admiring crowds who watch their movements from the shore.


Illustrated Police News, August 8, 1873.