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Weight lifting.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bernard H. B. Lange Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: BHB
Scope and Content Books collected by Bernard Lange, CSC, in English and German, many of them illustrated, concerning sex, sexual practices of various cultures, sexual hygiene, sexual magic, sex in the future, sexual mores, sexual perversions, sexual power, exercise, the human body, nudism, women, and children. One oil portrait of Lange in a cap and gown. Three body-building and weight-lifting plaques representing awards carved by Father Lange for Robert Aboczky, when he was a student at Notre Dame in the...
Dates: ca. 1917-1930s.

Milo Bar-bell Company Strong Men Advertising Cards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10085
Scope and Contents

Twenty-five advertising promotional cards, measuring 5 by 7 inches, published by the Milo Bar-bell Company. The cards feature weightlifters and strongmen in various poses, showing their muscles or exercising with various barbells and dumbbells. Many of the cards feature men posing while wearing little clothing. The original mailing envelope advertises the Milo Bar-bell Company, but none of the individual promotional cards reference the Milo Bar-bell Company.

Dates: c. 1918