Women in Sports Collection

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: Game of Golf; "Game of Golf" board game in a paper covered cardboard box; paper covered gameboard with a flap across the bottom, when lifted reveals storage for a cardboard spinner with a metal arrow and seventeen wooden playing pieces; board chromolithographed with an image of four golfers in the corners and a landscape in the center with a train, a clubhouse and a stream through the center; box cover lithographed with three girls holding golf clubs under the inscription, "GAME/ OF/ GOLF"; directions printed on the underside of the box cover; lithographed on the side of the box: "GAME/ OF/ GOLF", The Liman Collection, New-York Historical Society

: Pillow-Dex Tennis; "Pillow-Dex Tennis" table game with a set of paper instructions, an envelope to hold balloons, two wooden rackets stung with waxed cord and a white cord net that makes the dividing line in a paper covered cardboard box; box cover chromolithographed with a man and a woman playing pillow-dex with the net strung between to chairs ina parlor with an older couple looking on; box cover inscribed, "Pillow-Dex/ Tennis/ TRADE MARK/ Healthful Fun/ for INDOORS or/ OUTDOORS./ Copyright 1897 by/ PARKER BROTHERS/ SALEM MASS USA/ Contains, RACKETS, NET,/ PILLOW-DEX BALLS AND RULES./ Patent Applied for.", The Liman Collection, New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Couple on a tandem bike, bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Bicycle parade, Bronx, N.Y., 1898.; New-York Historical Society

: Fat women's race, Orchard Beach, Bronx, N.Y., 1907.; New-York Historical Society

: Fat women's race,', Isham Park 4th of July ceremonies, Inwood, New York City, July 5, 1915.; New-York Historical Society

: Page from the March 1927 issue of Park Avenue Social Review, featuring photographs of society ladies taking part in various sports at the Polo Games in Aiken, S.C. Included are Frances Heckscher, Mrs. George L. Mesker, Polly Potter, Mary Louise Baird, Mar; New-York Historical Society

: Evelyn Dearman playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Dorothy Round playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Nancy M. Lyle playing tennis, August 7, 1935. British Wightman Cup team.; New-York Historical Society

: Nancy M. Lyle playing tennis, August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Phyllis M. King playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Nancy M. Lyle playing tennis, August 7, 1935. British Wightman Cup team.; New-York Historical Society

: Women's tennis: Freda James, Phyllis M. King, Evelyn Dearman, Katherine Stammers, Nancy M. Lyle, and Dorothy Round, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Freda James playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Katherine Stammers playing tennis, August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Dorothy Round playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Dorothy Round playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Freda James playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Evelyn Dearman playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Dorothy Round playing tennis, probably August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Katherine Stammers playing tennis, August 7, 1935.; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt with her dad Bill Moffitt with their dog Bootsie in the front yard of their house at 528 West 36th Street, Long Beach, CA, circa 1948; New-York Historical Society

: Bill Moffitt, Betty Moffitt, Billie Jean and Randy Moffitt in the front yard of their house at 528 West 36th Street, Long Beach, CA, circa 1950; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt holding birthday cake with Randall (Randy) Moffitt in their front yard of their house at 528 West 36th Street, Long Beach, CA, circa 1951; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt and Randy Moffitt standing in the front yard of their house at 528 West 36th Street, Long Beach, CA, circa 1952; New-York Historical Society

: Jerry Cromwell, Coach Clyde Walker and Billie Jean Moffitt, Houghton Park, Long Beach, CA, circa 1954; Clyde Walker was Billie Jean Moffitt's first coach., New-York Historical Society

: Susan Williams, Jerry Cromwell, Allen Robbins and Billie Jean Moffitt, Houghton Park, Long Beach, CA, circa 1955; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt asking Tony Trabert for his autograph at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, circa 1955; The first time Billie Jean Moffitt asked for an autograph was when she asked Tony Trabert at the Los Angeles Tennis Club., New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt and K. Baer, August 1955; Billie Jean Moffitt won her first trophy winning the Women's Singles Class D Singles against K. Baer, 6-1, 6-0., New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt 7th Grade photo, Charles Evans Junior High School yearbook, 1956; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt wins the Dudley Cup in Santa Monica, 1956; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt hitting backhand, circa 1957; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt 8th Grade Hughes On Parade Charles Evans Junior High School yearbook, 1957; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt hitting an overhead in Long Beach, CA, circa 1957; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt playing tennis, circa 1957; New-York Historical Society

: Bill Moffitt, Betty Moffitt, Billie Jean Moffit, Darlene Hard, unidentified woman at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, circa 1957; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt playing tennis in Long Beach, CA, circa 1957; New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt with Perry T. Jones, circa 1958; Possibly taken at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. While participating in a tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Club in 1955, Billie Jean was barred from a group picture of junior tennis players by Perry T. Jones, considered the Czar of Tennis, because she wore the tennis shorts her mother made her instead of the tennis dress traditionally worn by female athletes., New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt and others having their photo taken, circa 1958; Billie Jean stands with three young women tennis players, while a photographer crouches at right, New-York Historical Society

: Billie Jean Moffitt playing tennis in Long Beach, CA, circa 1958; New-York Historical Society

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