Weight lifters
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Works from the collections
15 works
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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: 3288217iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.
- Ephemera
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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: 2059398iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
Alexander Zass posing.
Date: [between 1910 and 1915?]Reference: 3288853iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.