Physical Collection (page 3)

Attleboro Massacussetts - WW1 War Chest. Community Chests grew in popularity in the United States and Canada during World War I

Shakespeare quotes illustrated - the language of her body
Shakespeare quotes illustrated: " Theres language in her eye, her cheek, her lip - nay, her foot speaks" (" And this is the woman I have married" )

Sculpture of a male ball player by Georg Mattes (1874-1942). Date: circa 1900s

Sculpture of a Male Swedish Swimmer Date: circa 1900s

Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting Staff 97th TR Batt
The Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting Staff of the 97th Training Reserve (TR) Battalion - Aldershot Barracks, 1917. Date: 1917

Comic German postcard -- health spa physiotherapy
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- greetings from Karlsbad -- a grossly overweight man enjoys a bit of physiotherapy. Date: early 20th century

Boys build mountain at school, Seaford, East Sussex
Boys build a pyramid-shaped mountain at their school in Seaford, East Sussex, in order to learn how to rock climb. Date: circa 1960s

Atlantic College, St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Wales
Schoolboys in motor-powered inflatable dinghies on the sea near Atlantic College (United World College of the Atlantic), St Donats Castle, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, South Wales. Date: 1969

Voltaic pile by alessandro Volta. Colored engraving
Voltaic pile invented by the italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827). Colored engraving

Woman police officer in self-defence training exercise
Woman police officer taking part in a self-defence training exercise. Date: circa 1950s

Women police officers in self-defence exercise
Two women police officers taking part in a self-defence demonstration exercise at an outdoor event. One of them is Inspector Sheila Ward. Date: circa early 1970s

PLANCK, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig (1858-1947). German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Oil

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at sance
Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 8 March 1932. Harry Price and Professor David Fraser-Harris are controlling Schneider

Physical education, Boxing
At a secondary school in Stoke on Trent, England, two boys box in front of their class mates, part of their physical education

Physical education, gym
In the gymnasium a boy performs an acrobatic feat, watched by his fellow classmates. He leaps head first over four other boys who crouch on the floor

Kaiser Wilhelm IIs sons
The six sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II pictured in 1900: (l to r standing) Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942), Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951), Adalbert (1884-1948); (in front) Oskar (1888-1958)

Rudi Schneider (1908 - 1957) - an Austrian Spiritualist physical medium, investigated by notable psyschical researchers such as Harry Price and Eric J Dingwall

Gym Class in Progress
Physical Exercise - gym class in progress at Danesfield County Primary School, Buckinghamshire

Gnostic Talisman
GNOSTIC TALISMAN which provided protection against evil, both physical and moral

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

Comic German postcard -- Two Better Halves
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- Two Better Halves -- two grossly overweight women followed by their two skinny husbands. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- The Cavalier
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- The Cavalier -- a grossly overweight man with two grossly overweight women, in the rain with a small umbrella. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa new invention
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- greetings from Karlsbad -- a grossly overweight man uses a new invention for abdominal support, looking very much like a wheelbarrow. Date: early 20th century

Folk Dancers in Wembley Stadium - Festival of Youth Date: 1937

Students playing cricket steam train in background
Students playing cricket (steam train in background) Date: 1905

Fire Drill! Date: 1930s

Schoolgirls practising gymnastics to music (provided by an upright piano). Date: circa 1920s

Communist China - swimmers in Yangtze River
Swimmers (soldiers and civilians) in the water of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) in Communist China in July 1970. They are taking part in a training exercise

Comic postcard, large man with small car
Comic postcard, showing a large man easing himself into a small sports car -- " I m almost there!" Date: circa 1930s

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827). Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s. Statue. University of Pavia. Italy

Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot
Team photo from the Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot, Hampshire. Date: 1941

Borstal Drill in Gymnasium
Boys carry out physical drill in the gymnasium at an unidentified Borstal. Date: circa 1926

Webber & Ectoplasm
Jack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, producing ectoplasm from his mouth Date: 1939

Rock climbing at Bosigran, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Statue of the tennis player, Anthony Wilding
Physical Energy, a figure sculpted by Paul Troubetzkoy and based on the New Zealand tennis player, Captain Anthony Frederick Wilding. Wilding was Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913

Gymnastics at the Hermitage School, Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1907 by Jean-Ovide Decroly (18711932), a Belgian teacher and psychologist. Date: circa 1920

Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Anato Hayes - Odditorium
Ripleys Believe-it-or-not - Human Automobile Tyre - Wilber H. Roden ( Edema ) is inflated with an ordinary air pump to three times his normal size! Odditorium at The New York Worlds Fair of 1940

A sance with Willi Schneider
Undated flashlight photograph taken during a sance with Willi Schneider in his home town of Braunau, Austria, showing a white cloth " phantom" pinned to a curtain by means of a safety pin

Girls Gym Display
Schoolgirls, pupils of Nita Henson, put on a formal gymnasium display on a rib stall climbing frame. Children exercising at school, PE lesson, keep fit class

Education of young Spartans in Ancient Greece
The education of young Spartans in Ancient Greece emphasises brawn rather than brain

Jubilee School 1941
( My Class ) Jubilee School 1941 Date: 1941

Extraordinary exhibition of Scapiglione
Advertising flyer for an Extraordinary Exhibition at the Saville House, Leicester Square, every day from Ten o Clock till One, and from Two till Ten. Scapiglione

Communist China - training exercise in water
Swimmers in the water in Communist China, taking part in a training exercise to build up their mental and physical strength. They are male and female, some of them carrying rifles. circa 1970

Communist China - communal exercise session
Communal exercise session for timberyard workers during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

Communist China - university students exercising
Communist China - a new intake of university students doing physical exercise. circa 1960s

West Indies Auxiliary Territorial Service
Photograph from a collection of 69 photographs relating to the West Indies Auxiliary Territorial Service, 1943-1947. Date: 1947

Volunteers undergoing physical checks, 1943
Photograph of volunteers undergoing physical checks, 1943 (c).Potential recruits to the 5th Mahratta Light Infantry undergo weight tests at the regimental depot at Belgaum

Recruits at physical drill in a hall - Gloucestershire Regim
Photograph of recruits at physical drill in a hall, new Bristol Bn, Gloucestershire Regiment, 1914-1918.From a collection of photographs belonging to Lt R H Yeoman

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