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Weight lifters

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  • Bobby Pandur. Process print, 19--.
  • Eugen Sandow, a strongman. Process print, 190-.
  • D. Blazer, a strongman or wrestler. Process print, 192-.
  • The strongman Alexander Zass, called "Samson", seen partially from behind. Process print after K. Barber, 1928.
  • Eugen Sandow, a strongman. Process print, 190-.
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Catalogue

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    A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 668341i
    • Pictures

    Two Olympic athletes posing.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 3288217i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.

    | Date: [1880?]
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    A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.

    | Date: [ca. 1984?] | Reference: 2059398i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Pictures

    Alexander Zass posing.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1915?] | Reference: 3288853i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: homoerotica photograph album
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