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Images from the collections

Images about Bodybuilding

46 images from works
  • Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.
  • Don't waste your time or money on ROT! : Here's what I'm ready to do: I'll prove in just 7 days YOU can have a body like mine / Charles Atlas.
  • Life is movement : the physical reconstruction and regeneration of the people (a diseaseless world) / by Eugen Sandow.
  • Life is movement : the physical reconstruction and regeneration of the people (a diseaseless world) / by Eugen Sandow.
  • Life is movement : the physical reconstruction and regeneration of the people (a diseaseless world) / by Eugen Sandow.
  • Types os superb physical manhood who have been developed to this high degree of physical fitness and resistant power to disease by the very methods I am advocating in this book, and have been advocating consistently all over the world for the past quarter of a century. This is the type of youthfull manhood that we could and should have had if my advice had been taken and followed, as recruits, instead of such weedy specimens of humanity as shown in the previous picture.
  • From all over the world... : they keep writing in to say: Dear Mr. Atlas ... "look what you have done for ME" / Charles Atlas.
  • Steroids : gay men, sex and drugs / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Life is movement : the physical reconstruction and regeneration of the people (a diseaseless world) / by Eugen Sandow.
  • A strongman wearing a white vest and beret is admired by a boy and a girl. Colour process print, 1911.
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Works from the collections

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    • Books

    Minding muscle : the technologies of bodybuilding from the turn-of-the-century machine-man to the new millennium's ULTRAGIRL / by Jacqueline Brady.

    Brady, Jacqueline. | Date: 2000
    • Books

    Superman's girl friend, Lois Lane. No.73, The dummy and the damsel! / Kurt Schaffenberger [artist].

    Schaffenberger, Kurt. | Date: 1967
    • Ephemera

    Take your training to the next level : CherryActive - the catalyst for sports performance / CherryActive.

    | Date: [2012]
    • Ephemera

    Great news from Davina! : £10 cash back! / Davina Health & Fitness Limited.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1995]
    • Ephemera

    Don Oliver health & fitness equipment : complete home gym for family health and fitness / Don Oliver.

    | Date: [between 1980 and 1995]
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Exercise
Muscles
Physical Education and Training
Muscle Development
Charles Atlas
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Masculinity
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