Physical fitness
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on muscular efficiency and physical endurance. Works on optimal physical, mental, and social well-being, as well as how to achieve and preserve it, are entered under Health.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Building Physical Power Posters Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10089
Scope and Contents
Posters demonstrating at-home workout techniques for men and women using everyday objects. Each poster is titled “Building Physical Power, The Science of Acquiring Strength Through Spinal Development.” The posters were published by the United Schools of Physical Culture, Executive Offices: 915 Flatiron Building, New York. Each poster features a model demonstrating poses instructed by Bernar McFadden. Each poster is copyrighted 1909 by E. R. Du Mont. This collection currently only includes...
Dates:
1909
Daniel P. Connor, Jr., New Hampshire Cliff Diving Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7004
Content Description
The primary item in this collection is a scrapbook compiled by the physical culture enthusiast and swimming and diving instructor Daniel P. Connor, Jr. The main focus of the scrapbook is the young cliff divers that Connor taught. The scrapbook particularly covers the performance of the divers during the summer of 1922 and at the Manchester, New Hampshire, Winter Carnival of 1923. During the Carnival, the young daredevil cliff divers dove through ice and received considerable publicity. There...
Dates:
1919-1931; Majority of material found within 1922-1923