Players at the first American Chess Congress, 1857. Morphy seated at right playing with Paulsen. The beardless youth near centre of top row is D.W. Fiske.
Edith Elina Helen Baird (1859-1924, Mrs. W. J. Baird) was the author of The twentieth century retractor: chess fantasies, and letter problems; being a selection of three hundred problems. Enriched with Shakespearean quotations.
E.A. Balaguer was chess editor of the Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier from ca 1885 to 1893. From a collection of original photographs of chess and checkers players, some with scenes of games being played. The collection includes original...
On back: Fitsie Barrus, the Michigan expert checker player who had rather play than to eat his dinner. Expert cabinet maker, checker boards made from one dollar to as high as forty dollars. Chelsea Mich. Sept 25, 1891 On front(written by John G....
Benjamin Grennell Barton. Presented to me about the month of May, 1888 by Mr. Barton (Mr. Barton, together with Messrs. Barnett and Ernst, form the most noted trio of living New Orleans problem-composers. Mr. Barton's problem career, however, dates...
Valentina Michajlovna Borisenko (1920-1993) was a winner of the Soviet women's chess championship. Chantal Chaude de Silans( 1919-2001) was born in France
The figure standing is Mr. L.P. Rees, Secretary of BCF. He is overlooking the players in the championship class. The players on extreme right of card are Revd Palmer (with pipe) and PJ Blake. Sitting Palmer is Mackenzie.
Mr. Theo M. Brown. (Theodore Morris Brown President of the Newark Chess Club. Taken about 1860. H.B.H. Hand letter on the side of the chess board is the text White mates in three. Author of Book of chess problems,1874.
Orestes Augustus Brownson, Jr., ca 1880. From a collection of original photographs of chess and checkers players, some with scenes of games being played. The collection includes original photographs, photographs of book and periodical...
From a collection of original photographs of chess and checkers players, some with scenes of games being played. The collection includes original photographs, photographs of book and periodical illustrations, other images, generally from the period...
This photo of Cecil Alfred Lucas Bull, taken in Durban, South Africa, is dated September 15, 1913. From a collection of original photographs of chess and checkers players, some with scenes of games being played. The collection includes original...
Notation on front: John M. Campbell of Webster, Pa. 1909. Collection of Lyman M. Stearns. From a collection of original photographs of chess and checkers players, some with scenes of games being played. The collection includes original photographs,...
Jose R. Capablanca, world's chess champion, playing forty opponents at the Manhattan Chess Club, in a simultaneous exhibition. He is shown here in front of David Warburgh, 14 year old player, of Stuyvesant High Club, N.Y.C.
Australian chess champion, creator of the Charlick gambit. Author of Jubilee of the Adelaide chess club (1864-1914), and editor of The Adelaide jubilee intercolonial chess congress, 1887. Inscription on front: Henry Charlick - South Australia....
Clippings from Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper, mounted in pre-bound book. For maximum legibility and ease of access, the images are presented as 12 separate, individually serachable, high resolution PDF files. Parts 1-7 represent the first...
Clippings from Birmingham Weekly Mercury mounted in 3 pre-bound books, edited by Robert John Buckley. The John G. White collection includes many scrapbooks of chess columns clipped from newspapers. Some were created by Mr. White, and some were...
Columns edited by J. Lowenthal and W. Steinitz. The John G. White collection includes many scrapbooks of chess columns clipped from newspapers. Some were created by Mr. White, and some were purchased from other collectors. Most of the scrapbooks...
Clippings of the Mirror of American Sports (published in Milwaukee), mounted in pre-bound book. The John G. White collection includes many scrapbooks of chess columns clipped from newspapers. Some were created by Mr. White, and some were purchased...
Problems 1-25, not numbered. Published Baltimore, Md. The John G. White collection includes many scrapbooks of chess columns clipped from newspapers. Some were created by Mr. White, and some were purchased from other collectors. Most of the...
Edward Claudel of New Orleans. This triplicate photograph was taken, printed and mounted by Mr. Claudel himself, and was given to me by him in May, 1897
Henri Delaire was a French chess player and author of chess manuals. Written in ink on verso: a Monsieur Alain C. White, souveneir cordial, H. Delai, 29 Mai 1908. Scene of Delai playing a game with an unknown player and viewer.
Illuminated 18th century Italian chess manuscript, The Delightful and Judicious Game of Chess. The text is accompanied by 49 hand-painted illuminations depicting the chessboard with capped busts of chessmen and pictures of chess pieces illustrating...
Critical edition in Italian and English of Il diletteuole, e giudizioso giuoco de scacchi : manoscritto inedito del XVIII secolo / edizione critica in italiano e in inglese a cura di Alessandro Sanvito e Kenneth Whyld ; [prefazione, Alice N....
From a collection of original photographs of chess and checkers players, some with scenes of games being played. The collection includes original photographs, photographs of book and periodical illustrations, other images, generally from the period...
