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"1900s" - 17 Total Result(s)
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A REVOLUTIONARY ROLL
During the Russian Revolution of 1905, artists analyzed the tension across the empire through political cartoons. In this cartoon, a Russian woman surveyed skittle pins depicting ministers and politic ...
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ADAM HAHN FOR VP
Like all the best sports, bowling can be full of political intrigue. Elections of ABC officers generally took place right after the annual tournament (referred to as the “National tournament” in 1907) ...
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BOWLING AS MEDICINE
In the early 1900s, a growing number of doctors and social reformers began to tout the positive effects of “recreation” for “the nervous and overworked.” Physical exercise was seen as an antidote to t ...
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BRINGING BOWLING TO LIFE
Editorial cartoonist William H. Walker produced artwork for Life magazine from 1894 to 1922. While many of his cartoons focused on political topics in America, he illustrated one in 1905 about the rev ...
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CANADIAN PIN KNIGHTS IN PITTSBURGH
Energetic Canadians left a mark on the 9th annual American Bowling Congress tournament in 1909 in Pittsburgh. “The Canucks are going crazy about this tournament. I never saw so much enthusiasm in my l ...
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CASE TO MATCH THE LUGGAGE
A bowling bag that matched one’s luggage was quite a luxury for the traveling bowler. Frank A. Stallman was a Columbus, Ohio, luggage manufacturer and was particularly well known for his dresser trunk ...
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GEOGRAPHIC ROOTS OF BOWLING
Bowling was growing fast in the industrial Northeast and the Midwest in the early 1900s as legions of workers turned to bowling as an after-work activity. Bowlers represented 32 cities at the 1904 Ame ...
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GUT HOLZ! NIPPER
The Schaefer & Vater Porcelain Factory was best known for producing humorous character flasks (also known as nippers), in addition to other porcelain crafts, with a distinctive blue glaze. The company ...
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IN LIFE AS IN BOWLING
Matthias Girmscheid has been operating as a stoneware and tableware company since the 1880s. The lid delivers a bowling truism to the drinker: “In life as in bowling, always keep your eye on the best ...
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PONY PIN
Pony pin was a bowling variation popular in the early 1900s, particularly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Major bowling manufacturer Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company produced the special pony pins, which re ...
