
Posture Class for girls at Barnard College, 1950s. | src Stephen Ellcock
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Posture Class for girls at Barnard College, 1950s. | src Stephen Ellcock

Senior girls from “Leonians” pose on the lawn for photographers, doing a Swedish Drill. Australia, 1940’s / src: physical culture

Russian-American actress and producer Alla Nazimova (born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon) working out, 1924 / src Ullstein Bild via Getty Images
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Fig. 24 – Composite Exercise for Limbering up.
Physical training for business men, 1917 (Illustration created by
photographer A. B. Phelan to accompany H. Irving Hancock’s book:
Physical Training for Business Men, 1917) / source: archive.org

Fig. 12. Shoulder and arm rolling. Physical training for business men, 1917 (Illustration created by photographer A. B. Phelan to accompany H. Irving Hancock’s book: Physical Training for Business Men, 1917) / source: archive.org

Underwood & Underwood :: Vintage publicity / advertising photograph of
silent film actress Dorothy Janis,
late 1920′s. Dorothy shows off her toned figure and strength on the
state-of-the-art at home gym (the Gym-Junior).
Photographer’s ink stamp, handwritten notations & paper caption on verso. / source: eBay
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Gerhard Richter :: Gymnastics, 1967. Oil on canvas. / src: gerhard-richter.com
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Ralph Crane :: Women practicing yoga at the Every Woman’s Village, 1966 / src: The LIFE Picture Collection
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