Exercising Collection

Yugoslavia - Sokol Rally in Belgrade
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

The Gymnasium - Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon
circa 1910s

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (2 of 2)

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (1 of 2)

Exercise Machine
Two young women, toning up and staying slim with the aid of their new fangled rowing exercise machines!

Advert for Terrys exerciser for men 1939
Christmas gift ideas from Herbert Terry exercisers, including steelstrand expander, golfer pocket wrist exerciser, spring grip dumbbells

New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure
The New Banting Bed for Reducing the Figure. Cartoon by William Heath Robinson

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague 1920s
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague 1929
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Czech Republic - 6th All Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Czech Republic - 9th All Sokol Rally in Prague 1932
9th All Sokol Rally in Prague 1932. A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic)

Chaps Exercise Regime
A variety of body exercises, requiring no special apparatus, that will keep any chap in good shape

V for Victory Exercise
Doing the V for Victory gymnastic, keeping fit by stretching in a V shape! Woman women fitness

Alec James of Arsenal in the gym
Arsenal player Alec James tries out the Vita Gymno Frame in the Gym at Arsenals Highbury Football Ground

Playground scene, Junior School, East End of London. 20th century

The Horse Show, Alexandra Park, London, 1873
Engraving showing four scenes at the Alexandra Park Horse Show of 1873. Clockwise from top left: 1st Prize Mule and Cart Mare; a Faller at the Water Jump; Exercising a thoroughbred; a group of riders

Prisoners exercising
GOGH, Vincent van (1853-1890). Prisoners exercising. Post-Impressionism. Oil on canvas

Comic postcard, Large woman exercising on the beach, with warning from inspector Date: 20th century

French Artillery Regiment in Training - Gymnastics on the high bars. Date: circa 1910s

Turkey. Men exercising in Tomak
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Men exercising in Tomak game. Martial art. Traditional game in which woll balls are used on leather straps. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot

Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, WW1
Women who have enlisted in the Women's Battalion of Death, Russia, to fight alongside the men during the First World War

Comic postcard, Large woman hiking Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl exercising Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy keeping fit Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump couple, Daily Dozen on holiday Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Large man running on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump couple on the beach Date: 20th century

Fyfield Residential Open Air School, Essex
Physical Exercise at Fyfield Residential Open Air School, Essex Date: 1935

WW2, Army Exercise Instruction hanging cards, three double-sided for Monday to Saturday (visible here are Thursday, Friday and Saturday). Date: circa 1940

Comic postcard, breathing in short pants Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, exercising on the beach Date: 20th century

Frontispiece with two cherubs holding a bicorn and sword. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Nelson Gardiner after an illustration by Princess Elizabeth from Thomas Parks Cupid Turned

Exercising in bed
A woman exercising on her bed, using a Cush-up, patented by Marian Jacks of Old Bond Street who specialised in corrective anatomy

Kitcheners new recruits, physical drill in Hyde Park, Londo
Kitcheners new recruits doing physical drill in Hyde Park, London. 1914-1918

Sketch cover - Prunella Stack (Lady Douglas Hamilton)
Ann Prunella Stack OBE (1915-2011), President of the Womens League of Health and Beauty, founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack pictured when she was Lady David Douglas-Hamilton with her baby son

Prunella Stack demonstrating exercises
Prunella Stack - Leader of The Womens League of Health & Beauty, The mortimer Halls, 43 Great Portland Street, W1, London - Aim of the League was

Advert for Vigors exercise horse at home 1895
Exercise on this saddle, three speeds trot, canter or gallop and claims to help with; creates appetite, cures dyspepsia, quickens the circulation, stimulates the liver, relieves hysteria, insomnia

Swiss Gymnastic Group Exercise Date: 1903

A young woman exercising with a pair of oars. Date: 1940s

Leila Hyams - American model, vaudeville and film actress
Leila Hyams (1905-1977) - an American model, vaudeville and film actress, that came from a show business family. Date: circa 1935

Womens physical exercise 1906
Two Edwardian women exercising with rings, using all of their upper muscles, particularly those of arms, back and shoulders. Date: 1906

EXERCISES FOR GIRLS (2)
Exercises for girls (2 of 3). Date: 1884

EXERCISES FOR GIRLS (3)
Exercises for girls (3 of 3). Date: 1884

EXERCISES FOR GIRLS (1)
Exercises for girls (1 of 3). Date: 1884

PERSIAN GYMNASTS
Persian athletes exercise to the accompaniment of music Date: circa 1835

Women's League of Health
The Women's League of Health and Beauty presenting an exercise demonstration in Hyde Park. The League was founded in 1930 by Mary Bagot Stack. Date: 1932

Sailors exercising their jaws on a comic French postcard by Poli. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Battle Creek Health Builder 1929
Mechanical massaging exercise machine that with a vibrating belt, used by 80, 000 men and women in the 1920s. Date: 1929

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