Physical Collection (page 15)

Folies-Bergere travail merveilleux sur le fil de fer par Fontaine. French poster shows aerialist Fontaine, labeled one of le heros du Niagara in three views: a small bust portait

Comparison of height and girth
A small squat, bald and rather rotund Italian gentleman, complains to his slender and tall friend about the disparity in their physicality! Date: 1917

And sent them to bed

Boys in training, physical drill, Shotley Barracks, WW1
Boys in training, doing physical drill in a field before breakfast at Shotley Barracks during the First World War. They are naval cadets attached to HMS Ganges, a Royal Navy training ship

Annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes
Scene from the annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes in The Royal Albert Hall. Here young girls perform physical exercise in the Indian Club Drill display. An exhibition of the good work of Dr

PE Class 1927
Physical education in school, 1927 Date: 1927

Bernarr McFadden
BERNARR MCFADDEN - American fitness guru, the father of physical culture, healthy- minded discourager of impure habits. Date: 1868 - 1955

PHYSCIAL ENERGY
Physical Energy, an equestrian statue in Kensigton Gardens; London. It was sculpted by George Frederick Watts (1817 - 1904), one of 3 castings made in 1902. Date: 1902

P. E. Lesson
Little boys enjoying leg exercises during a P.E. lesson. Date: 1960s

Revelations on Honeymoon
Revelations - 1st Chapter A hilarious postcard showing a couple on their honeymoon, revealing to each other (for seemingly yht efirst time!) their physical shortcomings

Sudan - PE at the Gordon College, Khartoum
Sudan - Physical Exercise for the students at Gordon College Khartoum. Date: circa 1910s

She beat them all soundly
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She beat them all soundly -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman beating one of her many children. 1899

Physical drill on the HMS Iron Duke, WW1
Physical drill for the crew on the HMS Iron Duke during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Polish Scouts exercising
Long lines of Polish Boy Scouts doing physical exercises in the Middle East. 1940s

Inmates of Chipping Norton Childrens Home
The National Childrens Homes (NCH) home at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, opened in 1903 for what were described as delicate and affected children

TS Exmouth - Musical drill
Music drill on the Training Ship Exmouth - band members (centre) are flanked by other boys doing physical drill. The Exmouth, moored of Grays in Essex

Outdoor Exercises 1930S
A class of British schoolgirls doing physical exercises in a school playground. Date: early 1930s

Gymnastics display, Market Weighton Reformatory, Yorkshire
A gymnastics display by inmates of the Yorkshire Roman Catholic Reformatory for Boys at Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, opened in 1856

Group of servicemen doing acrobatics in a field
A group of young servicemen doing acrobatics in a field, perhaps as part of their military training

Emergency pump, Inebriates Reformatory, Guiltcross, Norfolk
Inmates work the emergency water pump at the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory, Norfolk. Housed in the former Guiltcross Union workhouse

Walking Holidays Abroad, Thomas Cook & Son Ltd
Cover illustration for Walking Holidays Abroad, Thomas Cook & Son Ltd. It depicts three walkers in silhouette against an alpine scene, with trees and snow-covered mountains in the background

Kensington & Chelsea District School, gymnasium
In 1876, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea established a District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme)

Kensington & Chelsea District School, gym team
In 1876, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea established a District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme)

India - Native wrestlers
Native wrestlers practising in India

Rock Arch
Painting of an unidentified coastal location with the unusual geological formation of a rock arch. Date: c.1930

PE and Band, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys taking part in an exercise drill, with the band behind them, on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland

Pencil sketch of a phantom Egyptian
Undated photograph of pencil sketch of a phantom, supposed to be an ancient Egyptian, drawn from life by the Austrian medium Maria Silbert during its materialisation which occurred at a s顮 ce

Undated automatic photograph of a handkerchief leaving a table at a Rudi Schneider sance. This is one of series of photographs documenting Harry Prices investigations into the mediumistic abilities

A portion of the electrical device for controlling mediums
Undated photograph showing a portion of the electrical device devised and demonstrated by Harry Price, for controlling mediums

Photograph of the infra-red cage at the National Laborator
Photograph of the infra-red " cage" at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, used during the Rudi Schneider experiments, 1932

Teleplasmic hand holding basket at a seance
Photograph of a reconstruction of one of the teleplasmic " hands" or pseudopods, often witnessed at the Rudi Schneider sances, 1929

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research during which a rising handkerchief was photographed, 3 March 1932

Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire
A group of physically disabled children have an outdoor lesson at the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire. Some hold crutches while other lie on wooden beds or in a pram

Physical education, girls
A group of barefooted teenage girls learn to be graceful and lady-like during a lesson of musical movement, which involves playing various musical instruments whilst stretching and dancing

Physical education, girls
A group of barefooted teenage girls learn to be graceful and lady-like during a lesson of musical movement, which involves playing various musical instruments whilst stretching and dancing

Statue Physical Energy in Kensington Gardens
The Statue Physical Energy in Kensington Gardens, London. Designed by George Frederic Watts

Fleet Street newspaper clerks exercising at lunch time
Young clerks of the advertising departments of newspapers on Fleet Street assemble each lunch time at St. Brides Institute (the artistic headquarters of Londons printers)

Exorcism of Carlos II
A priest performs an exorcism on the Habsburg king of Spain, Carlos II; his physical and mental sufferings caused him to think himself bewitched; he failed to provide an heir

Willi & Rudi Schneider
The Schneider Family, with Rudi (second right) and his brother Willi (far right) - the Austrain spiritualist physical mediums pictures with their parents

Moslem Fanatics
Moslem fanatics at the Mohurrum festival : they have inflicted all kinds of physical injuries on their bodies as signs of their devotion

Strong Man, E. Sandow
EUGEN SANDOW American exponent of physical fitness, showing off his arm muscles

The Pankhursts
Suffragettes. A photo of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, leaders of the physical-force party in the votes-for-women campaign

Mary Somerville / Leisure
MARY SOMERVILLE nee FAIRFAX Scottish writer on mathematics and physical science, with one of her daughters in Florence

Gym Class / Primary School
Physical Exercise - children attend gym class at Danesfield County Primary School, Buckinghamshire

Ice skating scene
An ice skating scene, with an athletic male skater in the foreground, a couple further back, and a non-skating man with his non-skating dog

Boy on stilts
A boy on stilts smiles out at the reader

Grandville Great / Small
The great and the small

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