[Sports] Press photographs of sports accidents, collection of seven All 15 x 20.5 cm and w. stamps of Associated Press (London) verso, ca. 1950. Very dramatic photographs, showing a jockey and horse falling, 3 race car accidents, a falling motorcyclist, a group of speed cyclists crashing and a speedboat accident. Added: 4 other press photographs, incl. 2 of scenes from the Belgium-Netherlands football match on 16 April 1950, w. stamp of J.P. van der Valk and mounted slips w. descriptions in pencil verso. From the archive of Ons Vrije Nederland. (total 11)

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