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....
Scrapbook compiled by Anthony Barker containing variety of strength-related and biographical material. Professor Anthony Barker scrapbook is available on the Strongman Project website.
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 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 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...
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...
As a devoted weightlifter and physical culturalist, Coulter sought out and collected training guides produced by many of the world’s best-known strongmen, bodybuilders, and trainers. In 1922, K.V. Iyer opened the first Western style gym in India, in Bangalore. He was renowned for his beautifully balanced and developed body, achieved through a mixture of bodybuilding...
Ottley Coulter and George Jowett shared a life-long passion for weightlifting, believing it was not only a means to improve your physique but also an excellent channel for competitive energy. They wanted to see the sport of weightlifting receive national and international accolades; one step in that direction was the codification of competition rules. Their...
The digitization of the pages in Attila’s scrapbook was made possible by a grant from the Utopia Project, an outreach of the General Library System at The University of Texas at Austin. The images were done on a special scanner that allows the book to rest upward in an open position rather than having to...
