Digital Library

The Three Bartos, Eddie Barto, Edward Sturm, and Dewey Barto (nee Stewart Steven Swoyer), were an acrobatic hand-balancing act that...

This is a game-by-game account of the historic 1947 season in which the Longhorns won the Southwest Conference led by...

A photograph catalog of famous bodybuilders compiled by Paul Putnam. Distributed with the intent of selling copies of the photos,...

Harvey Penick’s Little Red Golf Letter newsletter from 1994 filled with helpful golf tips and musings, as well as an...

Scrapbook containing mostly photographs documenting the life and athletic accomplishments of George Jowett, beginning with physique photographs at age 15...

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

Scrapbook #12 This scrapbook features photographs of family members, birth and death certificates, tickets, photographs of family members, strongmen, and...

Health and Life magazine was published in June 1922 as a “national monthly magazine for health, physical education and right living.” ...

Ottley Coulter created several scrapbooks documenting various Strongmen and Strongwomen’s lives and careers through clippings and other materials. The strongmen...

Strength, first published in 1914, was the channel needed by Alan Calvert to get the public to start using weights....

As a devoted weightlifter and physical culturalist, Coulter sought out and collected training guides produced by many of the world’s...

Ottley Coulter and George Jowett shared a life-long passion for weightlifting, believing it was not only a means to improve...

The digitization of the pages in Attila’s scrapbook was made possible by a grant from the Utopia Project, an outreach...

We are happy to make available the digitized version of one of our most important documents—the 600-page scrapbook owned for...

Even rarer than Les Rois de la Force, however, is Desbonnet’s Les Rois de La Lutte (The Kings of Wrestling)...

Les Rois de la Force (The Kings of Strength), written by French physical culturist and magazine publisher Edmond Desbonnet, is...

Launched in March 1899, Physical Culture, published by Bernarr Macfadden, contained dietary advice, weight training information, and an incredible collection...

Your Physique was a very influential magazine throughout its publication.

We are pleased to make available a related chapter on running training by Mr. George published in Training for Athletics. Researchers...

A recent article in the New York Times Magazine has spurred renewed interest in W. C. George’s book The 100-Up Exercise. Because Mr....