George F. Jowett was one of the first to offer strength correspondence courses to people at a time when there really were relatively few gymnasiums. He was born December 23, 1891 in England and lived there until 1911 when he immigrated to Canada. In 1923 he moved to Pittsburgh and then Scranton, Pennsylvania where he...
Digital Resources
All About Lifting by W.L. Carquest
W.L. Carquest was a British World Champion Weight-Lifter at the turn of the 20th Century. He first gained the 8 stone 7 pounds championship at the German Gymnasium on the 20th of April, 1907 (this was the same day that the match between Inch and Caswell for the World’s Middle-weight Championship took place). He set...
The Broad of the Back by Alan Calvert
Alan Calvert was an American weightlifter, businessman, magazine publisher, and the author of several books. He was the founder of one of the first barbell companies in the world, the Milo Bar-bell Company, in Philadelphia in 1902. Calvert was also the founding publisher of Strength, one of the first strength-training magazines in the United States,...
Professor Anthony Barker’s Training Pamphlets
Professor Anthony Barker was a great Oldtime Strongman in the New York Area in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Barker practiced early all around strength and was famous not only for having strong muscles, but being strong all over. In addition to regular strongman training of the period, he trained his jaws with teeth...
How to Perform Feats of Strength
Chuck Sipes was born in 1932 and started weightlifting to make a high school football team and ended up being an incredibly successful bodybuilder. Chuck won numerous titles, such as Mr. America in 1959, Mr. Universe in 1960, NABBA World Championship in 1967 and Mr. World in 1968. Aside from his impressive bodybuilding career, Chuck...
Art Folios of Muscular Marvels
A booklet of boxers, wrestlers, strongmen, weight-lifters, bodybuilders…hundreds of photos, each with name of bodybuilder underneath, but no other text. Roughly 100 pages (not numbered), authored by Earle Lieberman.
Walt Baptiste’s Muscle Control Instruction Pamphlet
Walt Baptiste was a renowned and much loved San Francisco leader and legend, a patriotic American, a leader and a pioneer who inspired hundreds of thousands to embrace the world of Body Mind & Spirit. Walt was one of the foremost authorities and teachers of Yoga in the world, who taught countless students over the...
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium at the University of Texas
Beginning with the very first graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin, the game of football has long played a large part in shaping the culture and identity of our campus. This year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, which was formally dedicated on 27 November 1924 with...
The Strong Man
The Strong Man was a magazine for weight lifting enthusiasts of the era published through the Milo Bar Bell Company and edited by Mark Berry, the first United States Olympic Team weight lifting coach, hired for the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. The first 14 issues of The Strong Man, from June 1931 to 1933 are...