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Physiques of All Nations as the Camera Sees Them, Volume 1

Physiques of All Nations as the Camera Sees Them, Volume 1

A photograph catalog of famous bodybuilders compiled by Paul Putnam. Distributed with the intent of selling copies of the photos, as well as to encourage unknown bodybuilders to submit posing photographs for awards. Visit the Strongman Project to view the Physiques of All Nations as the Camera Sees Them, Volume 1 as single pages or...

Page 3 of George Jowett's scrapbook

George F. Jowett Scrapbook

Scrapbook containing mostly photographs documenting the life and athletic accomplishments of George Jowett, beginning with physique photographs at age 15 and including physique photos, studio portraits, wrestling action shots, weightlifting and strength feat demonstration photographs, and with competitors at various competitions; ends with photographs of Jowett speaking at a ceremony honoring him at age 79....

An advertisement clipping for Prof. Barker in his scrapbook

Professor Anthony Barker Scrapbook

Scrapbook compiled by Anthony Barker containing variety of strength-related and biographical material. Professor Anthony Barker scrapbook is available on the Strongman Project website.

Front cover of Milo Steinborn Scrapbook #20

Henry ‘Milo’ Steinborn Scrapbooks

Scrapbook #12 This scrapbook features photographs of family members, birth and death certificates, tickets, photographs of family members, strongmen, and Steinborn himself. Steinborn’s scrapbook is available on Strongman Project. Scrapbook #20 This scrapbook was assembled by Milo Steinborn himself. The pages of this scrapbook contain photos, newspaper articles, and postcards of wrestlers documenting the strongmen,...

Health and Life June 1922 Journal cover

Health and Life

Health and Life magazine was published in June 1922 as a “national monthly magazine for health, physical education and right living.”  Published by Health and Life Publishing Company of Chicago, Illinois with editor-in-chief Bernard Bernard, the magazine included a regular section on the American Continental Weightlifters’ Association.  By 1926 (Volume 5, No. 2), the magazine changed...

Ottley Coulter Collection –Scrapbooks

Ottley Coulter Collection –Scrapbooks

Ottley Coulter created several scrapbooks documenting various Strongmen and Strongwomen’s lives and careers through clippings and other materials. The strongmen and strongwomen documented in Ottley Coulter’s scrapbooks include Apollon, Louis Cyr, Katie Sandwina, Arthur Saxon and the Saxon Trio, Wilhelm Turk, Josef Steinbach, Hector Decarie, Henry Holtgrewe, F. B. Franks, Deriaz brothers, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tony...

Banner of March 1915 Strength Magazine.

Strength Magazine, 1914-1930

Strength, first published in 1914, was the channel needed by Alan Calvert to get the public to start using weights. Calvert had opened his business, Milo Bar-Bell, in 1902, on the premise that lifting heavy weights was the key to strength and physical conditioning. His adjustable barbells paved the way for the development of progressive...