These scrapbooks were compiled by George Alex Harris and include events and people from the 1920s during his time as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. George Harris was a track athlete at UT who earned his letter in 1924-’25 and 1930. Harris also assisted legendary Clyde Littlefield as a coach of...
We’ve been making moves at The Stark Center. On Tuesday, a goddess arrived in the Stark Center’s Reading Room, bringing a new look and a fresh sense of triumph to the students and scholars who work in it. From the Blanton Museum of Art’s Collection of Battle Casts, Winged Victory of Samothrace brings the feminine...
“Joe Weider’s 15 Exciting Courses To A He-Man Body” was a small mail-order bodybuilding pamphlet produced by Joe Weider. It served primarily as a marketing booklet to sell Weider’s full training courses, equipment, and nutritional supplements rather than as a complete standalone training manual. The pamphlets were published in the late 1950s and 1960s. At the time, Weider and...
