Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Ernest Edwin Coffin Collection
Brooks, Warwick
Coffin, Ernest Edwin
Steckel, Geo. (George), 1864-
Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925
Sandwina, Katie
Weider, Joe (author)
Weston, Arthur
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
Manhart, Harrison D., II
NMAH.AC.1152
Archival Resource Key
11.5 Cubic feet
26 boxes
1889-1954
The collection documents Eugen Sandow and other bodybuilders through correspondence and photographs.
Collection is in English. Some materials in French.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to the Archives Center by Dan Manhart in 2009.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series.
Series 1: Background Materials, 1894-1958
Series 2: Correspondence, 1902-1954
Series 3: Publications, 1926-03-1955-01
Series 4: Photographs, 1889-1952
Biographical
Ernest Edwin Coffin (1898-1954) was a California amateur bodybuilder, and weightlifter and collector of bodybuilding memorabilia, especially on the subject of Eugen Sandow. Coffin considered himself the world's expert on "Sandowania" and spent over 40 years writing and collecting memorabilia about Sandow as well as other strongmen such as Joe Weider, Milo Steinborn, and Katie Sandwina.
Born Frederich Muller (1867-1925) in Konigsberg, Prussia, Muller emigrated to England in 1889 and become a citizen in 1906. Muller adopted the stage name of Eugen Sandow and ran several schools of physical culture, performed, lectured, and wrote about strength amd mental and physical health. Sandow toured the United States in 1893 with his manager, Florenz Ziegfeld, the "Follies" showman. Sandow's first American appearance was at the World's Fair in Chicago where he was an instant success. Ziegfeld marketed Sandow as "the perfect man," and "the modern Hercules." Sandow used his popularity to market books, a magazine (
Physical Culture), and exercise equipment.
Preferred Citation
Ernest Edwin Coffin Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2019.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains original and copy photographs of Eugen Sandow and other bodybuilders and actors, by well known photographers Warwick Brooks, Napoleon Sarony, Benjamin J. Falk, George Steckel, and others; correspondence with well-known bodybuilders such as Joe Weider and Katie Sandwina; and periodicals and books about Sandow.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Separated Materials
Materials in the Division of Culture and the Arts (now Division of Cultural and Community Life).
The Division of Culture and the Arts holds hand weights, a cut-out, and a dumbbell belonging to Eugen Sandow. See accession #2001.0179.
Custodial History
The collection was assembled by Ernest Edwin Coffin, a collector of Eugen Sandow memorabilia.
Physical education and training
Pamphlets
Articles
Modelling
Bodybuilding
Correspondence
Photographs -- 20th century
Photographs -- 19th century
Glass plate negatives
Scrapbooks -- 20th century
Books
Periodicals
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Sandow, Eugen, 1867-1925
Background Materials
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
1894-1958
Scope and Contents
This series consists of personal materials documenting Ernest Coffin, his daughters, June and Marion Coffin, and general background information about strongmen. There is some weight lifting and physical measurement data compiled by Coffin, both typescript and handwritten, detailing various records, such as two arm presses and two hand dead lift. There are print advertisements for books, equipment, vaudeville shows, and physique photography related to strongmen. Many of the ads promote books and equipment about health and strength such as Sandow's grip dumb bells, A.G. Spalding and Brothers dumb bells, the Trevor continental chest expander, and the Terry "spring-way." Other ads promote places of health such as the Universal Institute of Physical Culture (England) with the relevant courses and apparatus. The bulk of the material consists of newspaper clippings about strongmen, especially Eugen Sandow, and other interests of Coffin such as animals and theatre.
Ernest Coffin, personal
Archival Resource Key
1940, 1945
1
1
Ernest Coffin, divorce papers
Archival Resource Key
1946, 1950
1
2
June and Marion Coffin, notes on Sandow
Archival Resource Key
1933
1
3
Marion Coffin, composition notebook
Archival Resource Key
1935
1
4
Questionnaires about strongmen
Archival Resource Key
1934-1944
1
5
Weight lifter biographies, men
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
6
Weight lifting data for women
Archival Resource Key
1930s
1
7
Weightlifting data
Archival Resource Key
undated
26
3
Karl Swobada (strongman), biographical notes
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
8
Weight lifting data and body measurement data for men)
Archival Resource Key
undated
1
9
Ernest Coffin notes [for manuscript?]
Archival Resource Key
1925-1930s
1
10
Advertisements for books, equipment and strongmen shows
Archival Resource Key
1902-1939
1
11
Miscellaneous ephemera
Archival Resource Key
1941, undated
1
12
Scrapbook about Eugen Sandow
Archival Resource Key
1930s
23
1-9
24
1
Scope and Contents
Contains primarily photographs of Eugen Sandow and some typescript materials.
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1894
1
13
Clippings
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1919-1920
1
14
Clippings
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1923-1926
1
15
Clippings
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1927-1929
1
16
Clippings
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1930-1931
1
17
Clippings
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1932-1934
1
18
Clippings
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1933-1936
26
4
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1935
1
19
Scope and Contents
Includes a Ziegfield Follies brochure featturing Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld (nee Billie Burke).
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1936
1
20
Clippings
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1937
2
1
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1938-1939
2
2
Clippings
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1930-1940
20
2
Clippings
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1940-1942
2
3
Clippings
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1943-1945
2
4
Clippings
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1946-1949
2
5
Clippings
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1958
2
6
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
undated
2
7
Clippings about strongmen
Archival Resource Key
1925-1941
2
8
Clippings about animals
Archival Resource Key
1926-1954
2
9-10
Clippings about Ernest Coffin
Archival Resource Key
1920s-1930s
2
11
Clippings about Eugen Sandow
Archival Resource Key
1901, undated
2
12
Cloth bag
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
1
Scope and Contents
Presumably belonged to George Steckel.
Keys, stamp, small box and printing block (with image of Eugen Sandow)
Archival Resource Key
27
Scope and Contents
Items belonged to Ernest Coffin. The stamp (From the Personal Collection of Ernest Edwin Coffin) was used by Coffin to mark items he purchased. The small printing block for offset lithography contains a portrait of Eugen Sandow used on Coffin's stationery.
Sandow's Illustrated Chart of Home Exercises
Archival Resource Key
1 Poster
21.5" x 35"
1
Correspondence
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
1902-1954
Scope and Contents
The correspondence is divided into two subseries, Subseries 2.1: Alphabetical and Subseries 2.2: Chronological. The correspondence is primarily between Ernest Coffin and other strongmen/bodybuilders and collectors and admirers of Eugen Sandow. Many correspondents wrote to Coffin seeking information about Sandow or to purchase Sandow memorabilia.
Alphabetical
2.1
Archival Resource Key
1902-1954
Jack Abrams
Archival Resource Key
1939
2
13
American Athletic Appliance Co., Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1937
2
14
William C. Anderson
Archival Resource Key
1945
2
15
E.P. Austin
Archival Resource Key
1953-1954
2
16
[Ian] "Mac" Batchelor
Archival Resource Key
1941, 1946
3
1
Scope and Contents
Includes cocktail napkins with the poems, "The Bartender Knows" and "Liquor and Longevity."
Mark H. Berry
Archival Resource Key
1938
3
2
Leslie E. Birger
Archival Resource Key
1939-1941
3
3
Scope and Contents
Includes examples of Ernest Edwin Coffin letterhead featuring Eugen Sandow images.
Emile Bonnet
Archival Resource Key
1940
3
4
Bur Bar Bell Company
Archival Resource Key
1939
3
5
Alan Calvert
Archival Resource Key
1925
3
6
Caproni Galleries
Archival Resource Key
1939, 1947
3
6A
B.P. Cheney
Archival Resource Key
1938
3
7
Arthur Christopher (Christopher Publishing House)
Archival Resource Key
1940-1941
3
8
Leo Cocks
Archival Resource Key
1945-1946
3
9
Ottley Coulter
Archival Resource Key
1939-1940
3
10
James S. Collis
Archival Resource Key
1937
3
11
Albert Davis Collection of Theatrical Photographs
Archival Resource Key
1946
3
12
Edmond Desbonnet (Librairie Athletique) La Culture Physique
Archival Resource Key
1937-1940
3
13
Roger Eells (VIM Magazine)
Archival Resource Key
1940-1941
3
14
Jim Evans
Archival Resource Key
1937-1940
3
15
Ben Allen Fields
Archival Resource Key
1948
3
16
Ifan Kyrle Fletcher
Archival Resource Key
1939-1940
3
17
Leo Gaudreau
Archival Resource Key
1931, 1941
3
18
F.B. Hathaway
Archival Resource Key
1940
3
19
Harry L. Good (Health and Physique Magazine)
Archival Resource Key
1939
3
20
John Grimek
Archival Resource Key
1945, 1950
3
21
Phil Grosse
Archival Resource Key
1946
3
22
Orrin J. Heller
Archival Resource Key
1947
4
1
John M. Hernic
Archival Resource Key
1934-1935
4
2
Bob Hoffman
Archival Resource Key
1934-1944
4
3
W.G. Hunt
Archival Resource Key
1935
4
4
Independent Iron Works (Paramount)
Archival Resource Key
1947
4
5
Thomas Inch
Archival Resource Key
1924-1925
4
6
Angelo Iupsa
Archival Resource Key
1940-1950
4
7
Albert E. Johnson
Archival Resource Key
1948
4
8
Robert L. Jones
Archival Resource Key
1940-1948
4
9
Joe Kader
Archival Resource Key
1938
4
10
Jack Kent
Archival Resource Key
1950-1952
4
11
King of England
Archival Resource Key
1934
4
12
Irving Klaw
Archival Resource Key
1947
4
13
Siegmund Klein
Archival Resource Key
1932-1949
4
14
Richard Kotil
Archival Resource Key
1944
4
15
Library of Congress (copyright)
Archival Resource Key
1934-1939
4
16
Earle Liederman
Archival Resource Key
1925-1947
4
17
Scope and Contents
Includes typescript of "Strong Men I Have Known" (1936-1937).
Long Island Book Bindery
Archival Resource Key
1945-1946
4
18
Mahomed Cassim Mansoor
Archival Resource Key
1939-1940
4
19
John Makarewich
Archival Resource Key
1944-1946
4
20
H.A. Marebim
Archival Resource Key
1946
4
21
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio
Archival Resource Key
1935
4
22
Fred Medart Manufacturing Co. (Medart Steel Lockers)
Archival Resource Key
1924
4
23
Edwin Millburn
Archival Resource Key
1938-1939
4
24
Mills Novelty Company
Archival Resource Key
1935
5
1
Milo-Bar-Bell Company
Archival Resource Key
1919-1924
5
2
Eric Wallace Moorhead
Archival Resource Key
1940-1946
5
3
Museums
Archival Resource Key
1933-1937
5
4
[CSang?] Neil
Archival Resource Key
1946
5
5
Gerard Nisivoccia
Archival Resource Key
1935-1945
5
6
Paramount Bar Bell Company
Archival Resource Key
1938
5
7
Harry P. Paschall
Archival Resource Key
1946
5
8
Joseph Plaia
Archival Resource Key
1946-1947
5
9
Scope and Contents
Includes the first issue of
Your Guide to Health, Happiness, Abundance and Strength, undated, an illustrated catalog for the physical culturist and health seeker.
W.A. Pullman
Archival Resource Key
1923, 1926
5
10
Paul R. Putnam
Archival Resource Key
1938
5
11
Perry Rader
Archival Resource Key
1938-1946
5
12
Willis Reed
Archival Resource Key
1951
5
13
Ritter Brothers
Archival Resource Key
1935
5
14
Harry Robinson
Archival Resource Key
1940-1941
5
15
Sandow Appliance Company
Archival Resource Key
1937
5
16
Sandow's College of Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1902-1903
5
17
The Sandow Society
Archival Resource Key
1938
5
18
Louis Schmitt
Archival Resource Key
1938
5
19
Kati Sandwina ("World's Strongest Woman")
Archival Resource Key
1941-1942, 1948
5
20
Charles W. Smith
Archival Resource Key
1938-1940
5
21
South Los Angeles Athletic Club
Archival Resource Key
undated
5
22
George Steckel
Archival Resource Key
1936-1939
5
23-24
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with and clippings about George Steckel (1864-1938), photographer. Steckel photographed the social life of Los Angeles and portraits of Eugen Sandow, mostly nude with fig leaf or in tank suit and wearing medallion, in strong man poses and imitating classical sculpture.
Heinrich Josef Steinborn
Archival Resource Key
1935-1939
5
25
Strength Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1925-1926
6
1
Superman Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1939-1941
6
2
Douglas Tardy
Archival Resource Key
1945
6
3
M.R. Tanksalvala
Archival Resource Key
undated
6
4
Vic Tanny (Tanny's Gymnasium)
Archival Resource Key
1941
6
5
Chester O. Teegarden
Archival Resource Key
1947
6
6
Frank J. Thompson
Archival Resource Key
1946-1948
6
7
James Todd
Archival Resource Key
1947-1948
6
8
Virgil V. Tomas
Archival Resource Key
1940. 1953
6
9
Maurice Torf
Archival Resource Key
1925
6
10
Albert Treloar
Archival Resource Key
1903-1904
6
11
Scope and Contents
Albert "Al" Treloar was the physical director of the Los Angeles Athletic Club (L.A.A.C.).
Albert Treloar
Archival Resource Key
1922-1928
6
12
Albert Treloar
Archival Resource Key
1934
6
13
Albert Treloar
Archival Resource Key
1935-1938
6
14
Albert Treloar
Archival Resource Key
1938-1947
6
15
Albert Treloar (Los Angeles Athletic Club, Mercury Magazine, loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1939
6
16
Charles T. Trevor
Archival Resource Key
1923-1939
6
17
Al Urban
Archival Resource Key
1942-1943
7
1
JohnValentine
Archival Resource Key
1946
7
2
Ray Van Clef
Archival Resource Key
1940-1946
7
3
Warwick Brookes Studio
Archival Resource Key
1934
7
4
George R. Weaver
Archival Resource Key
1944
7
5
Weber and Rice (Health and Strength College)
Archival Resource Key
1940
7
6
Joe Weider (Weider Barbell Company)
Archival Resource Key
1939
7
7
Herman Weinsoff
Archival Resource Key
1947-1948
7
8
Hal Weiss
Archival Resource Key
1946-1954
7
9
L.B. Williams
Archival Resource Key
1946
7
10
David P. Willoughby
Archival Resource Key
1940-1954
7
11
David P. Willoughby
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
12
David P. Willoughby
Archival Resource Key
1923-1929
7
13
David P. Willoughby
Archival Resource Key
1931-1934
7
14
David P. Willoughby
Archival Resource Key
1933
7
15
Scope and Contents
Includes letter from Ernest Coffin to George Steckel of June 21, 1936, questioning when original photographs taken by Steckel of Eugen Sandow were printed. The letter contains 34 questions which Steckel answered.
Richard Young
Archival Resource Key
1943-1946
7
17
David P. Willoughby
Archival Resource Key
1936-1939
7
16
Scope and Contents
Includes loose pages from
Superman and Health and Strength.
Alexander Zass
Archival Resource Key
undated
7
18
Billie Burke Ziegfeld
Archival Resource Key
1934
7
19
Sol Zorn
Archival Resource Key
1938
7
20
Ernest Coffin notes
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1940s
7
21
Chronological
2.2
Archival Resource Key
1930-1954
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1925, 1927-1928
8
1
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1930-1931
8
2
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1932
8
3
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1934
8
4
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1935
8
5
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1936
8
6
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1937
8
7
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1938
8
8
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1939
8
9
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1940
8
10
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1941
8
11
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1942
8
12
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1944-1945
8
13
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1946-1949
8
14
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
1950-1952
8
15
Chronological
Archival Resource Key
undated
8
16
Scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1948-1954
8
17
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence with Professeur Vissaguet, photographs, notes, questionnaires sent to strongmen, and newspaper clippings. Of note is the "Sandow as Samson" headline featuring an article about Sandow wrestling the lion, Commodore, in Central Park. The scrapbook was assembled by Harrison Manhart III.
Scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1938-1951
8
18
Scrapbook
Archival Resource Key
1932-1941
8
19
Scrapbook (Great Ziegfeld prints)
Archival Resource Key
1936
9
1-3
Publications
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
1926-03-1955-01
Scope and Contents
This series is divided into two subseries, Subseries 3.1: Periodicals and Subseries 3.2: Books. Both subseries are arranged alphabetically. Loose pages from periodicals are also found here.
Periodicals
3.1
Archival Resource Key
1887-07-1955-01
Scope and Contents
Contains serials related to body building, physical culture and general health and fitness. Eugen Sandow founded
Physical Culture in July 1898. The magazine was renamed Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture in April 1899.
Abel's Photographic Weekly
Archival Resource Key
1932
9
4
All Sport's Weekly
Archival Resource Key
1924
9
5
The Arena Strength
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
6
The Bar Bell
Archival Resource Key
1939-08-10
26
2
Beauty and Health (loose page)
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
7
The Body Builder
Archival Resource Key
undated
9
8
Body Molding, No. 4
Archival Resource Key
1925-10
9
9
Body Molding, No. 5
Archival Resource Key
1925-11
9
10
Body Molding, No. 8
Archival Resource Key
1927
9
11
Cosmopolitan (loose page)
Archival Resource Key
1890-05
9
12
Health and Efficiency (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1925-1938
9
13
Health and Life
Archival Resource Key
1925 Spring
9
14
Health and Physique
Archival Resource Key
1938-10-1939-10
9
15
Health and Physique
Archival Resource Key
1939-01
9
15
Health and Physique
Archival Resource Key
1939-10
9
15
Health and Strength
Archival Resource Key
1940-11-30
10
1
Health and Strength
Archival Resource Key
1942-04
10
2
Health and Strength (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1925-1941
10
3
Health and Strength (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1925-1939
10
4-5
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1938-10
10
6
Iron Man (loose articles)
Archival Resource Key
1941-1942
10
7
Scope and Contents
Contains biographies for: John Grimaek, Eugen Sandow, Charles Atlas, K.V. Iyer, Bert Goodrich, George Hackenschmidt, Tony Sansone, Siegmund Klein, Otto Arco, Alan P. Mead, and Kenneth Pendelton.
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
[1945?]
10
8
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1948-07
10
9
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1948-08
10
9
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1948-11
10
9
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1948-12
10
9
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1949-11-1949-12
10
10
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1950-01-1950-02
10
10
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1950-03-1950-04
10
10
Iron Man
Archival Resource Key
1955-01
10
10
Journal of Health and Physical Education
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
11
London Illustrated News
Archival Resource Key
1929-07-06
20
3
The Mentor
Archival Resource Key
1923-01
10
12
Mercury (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
undated
10
13
Muscle Builder
Archival Resource Key
1925-03
10
14
Muscle Builder (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1925
10
15
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1945-07
10
16
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1945-11
11
1
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1946-08
11
2
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1947-02
11
3
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1947-07
11
4
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1952-06
11
4
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1953-11
11
4
Muscle Power
Archival Resource Key
1954-05
11
4
People Today
Archival Resource Key
1950-12-19
11
5
Photographic Digest
Archival Resource Key
1939-02-1939-03
11
6
Photographic Digest
Archival Resource Key
1939-10-1939-11
11
6
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1898-08
11
7
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1898-09
11
8
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1898-12
11
9
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1903
11
10
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1916-11
11
11
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1920-12
11
12
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1923-03
11
13
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1923-07
11
14
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1926-08
20
4
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1927-10
11
15
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1927-07
11
16
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1928-01
12
1
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1928-06
12
2
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1928-08
12
3
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1928-09
12
4
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1928-12
12
5
Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1929-04
12
6
Physical Culture (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1915-1934
12
7
Physical Fitness
Archival Resource Key
1940-06
12
8
Physical Fitness (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
undated
12
9
Popular Science
Archival Resource Key
1925
12
10
The Ring
Archival Resource Key
1933
12
11
The Ring
Archival Resource Key
1939-05
12
11
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1901-04
12
12
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1901-05
12
13
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1901-06
12
14
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1903-01
12
15
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1903-02
12
16
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1903-03
12
17
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1904-08
12
18
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1904-10
13
1
Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture and British Sport
Archival Resource Key
1904-12
13
2
Science Newsletter
Archival Resource Key
1932-09-04
13
3
Scribner's Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1887-07
13
4
Scribner's Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1887-11
13
4
Snap Shots
Archival Resource Key
1935-05
13
5
The Strand Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1910-03
13
6
The Strand Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1907-10
13
6
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1915-03
13
7
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1915-07
13
7
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1916-01
13
8
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1916-05
13
8
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1916-07
13
8
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1926-03
13
8
Strength
Archival Resource Key
1927-02
13
8
Strength (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1923-1930
13
10
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1949-12
13
9
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1953-01
13
9
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1954-07
13
9
Strength and Health (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
undated
13
11
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1935-07
13
8A
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1935-09
13
8A
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1942-05
13
8A
Strength and Health
Archival Resource Key
1948-12
13
8A
Superman
Archival Resource Key
1939-09-1939-12
13
13
Superman
Archival Resource Key
1940-01-1940-05
13
14
Superman
Archival Resource Key
1940-06-1940-12
13
15
Superman
Archival Resource Key
1941-06-1941-07
13
16
Superman (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1935-1941
13
17
The Strong Man
Archival Resource Key
1923-1925
14
1
Thru the Lens
Archival Resource Key
1937-06-25
14
2
VIM the Vital Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1940-03
14
3
VIM the Vital Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1941-04-1941-06
14
4
The Weightlifter
Archival Resource Key
1937-07
14
5
The Weightlifter
Archival Resource Key
1937-11-1937-12
14
5
Your Physique
Archival Resource Key
1943-05-1943-06
14
6
Your Physique
Archival Resource Key
1943-11-1943-12
14
7
Your Physique
Archival Resource Key
1948-11
14
8
Your Physique (loose pages)
Archival Resource Key
1942, undated
14
9
Miscellaneous articles
Archival Resource Key
17
4A
Scope and Contents
Includes "A Chat on Physical Culture" by Singlestick; "Physical Culture for Girls" by E.M. Seymour; and "Splendid Arms and How to Have Them.
Books
3.2
Archival Resource Key
1879-1948
Arm Development
Archival Resource Key
1932
14
10
Building a Muscular Body
Archival Resource Key
1935
14
10
Powerful Arms for You
Archival Resource Key
1945
14
10
Truth About Physical Training
Archival Resource Key
1933
14
10
How to get Strong
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
10
Multiple Weight Dumbbells
Archival Resource Key
undated
14
10
Body Building Man in the Making How to Become Healthy and Strong
Archival Resource Key
1897
14
11
Strength and how to obtain it
Archival Resource Key
1897
14
11
Building Better Bodies
Archival Resource Key
1924
15
1
Health and Physical Fitness by Post, how I conduct curative physical exercise in your own home
Archival Resource Key
undated
15
2
How to Get Strong and How to Stay So
Archival Resource Key
1879
15
3
Lettres de Cachet de la Ill Republique (Did Dr. Raymond Mallet Deliver his protege Professor Vissaguet?)
Archival Resource Key
1932
15
4
Life is Movement, The Physical Reconstruction and Regeneration of the People
Archival Resource Key
1920
15
5
Measure of the Man
Archival Resource Key
circa 1915
15
6
Mighty Men of Old
Archival Resource Key
1940
15
7
Modern Physical Culture
Archival Resource Key
1904
15
8
Muscle Cult
Archival Resource Key
[1920s]
16
1
Scope and Contents
Professor K.V. Iyer (1900-1980) was one of the most well known physical culturists in India.
Muscular Power
Archival Resource Key
1924
16
2
Perfect Manhood, The Real Truth
Archival Resource Key
1938
16
3
Physical Development and Figure Culture for Men, Women, and Children
Archival Resource Key
undated
16
4
Sandow the Magnificent
Archival Resource Key
1947-1948
16
5
Sandow's System of Physical Training
Archival Resource Key
3 Copies
1894
16
6-8
The Secrets of Strength and Development
Archival Resource Key
1944
17
1
Super Strength
Archival Resource Key
1924
17
2
Thomas Inch on Strength
Archival Resource Key
[1936?]
17
3
Weight Lifting
Archival Resource Key
1939
17
4
Photographs
Series 4
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1889-1952
Scope and Contents
This series consists of black and white photographs, glass plate negatives, copy negatives, cabinet cards, and copy prints. The bulk of the images depict Eugen Sandow, but there are images of other strongmen as well as Coffin's family members. The glass plate negatives and ivorytypes by George Steckel (17" x 20") and (5" x 7") depict Eugen Sandow in a variety of poses. Many of the photographs were taken by George Steckel, Warwick Brooks, Benjamin J. Falk, and H. Roland White.
[Jan G.] "Mac" Batchelor
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
5
Billie Burke
Archival Resource Key
[1936]
20
5
Ernest Coffin (family, friends and strongmen
Archival Resource Key
1930s-1940s
17
6
Ernest Coffin, proof prints
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
7
Ernest Coffin
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
8
Ernest Coffin, photographs by Keystone Photo Service
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
9
Marion Coffin
Archival Resource Key
1941
20
5
Paul Coffin
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
10
Jim Dick
Archival Resource Key
1945
17
11
William Farnum
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
12
J. Paul Getty
Archival Resource Key
1931
17
13
The Great Ziegfeld (movie)
Archival Resource Key
1936
17
14
20
6
Scope and Contents
Prints document Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
The Great Ziegfeld produced by Hunt Stromberger, directed by Robert L. Leonard and starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer and Nat Pendelton as Eugen Sandow.
[W.J.] Hine
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undated
17
15
Harry Keller
Archival Resource Key
1934
17
16
Norman Money
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1926, 1934
17
17
Olympia Instructions in Gymnastics
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
18
Eugen Sandow
Archival Resource Key
undated
17
19
Eugen Sandow, miniatures
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
1
Photographs by George Steckel
Archival Resource Key
1930s
18
2
Eugen Sandow, postcards
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
3
Eugen Sandow (negatives) by Warwick Brooks
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
4
Scope and Contents
Warwick Brooks (1843-1929) was a photographer in Manchester, England.
Eugen Sandow (negatives) by Alfred S. Campbell
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
5
Scope and Contents
American photographer active in New York City 1880-1910.
Eugen Sandow (negatives) by H. Roland White
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
6
Eugen Sandow (negatives for his book)
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
7
Eugen Sandow (negatives) by Benjamin J. Falk
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
8
Scope and Contents
Benjamin J. Falk (1853-1925) was an American photographer active in New York City during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Eugen Sandow (negatives) by Napoleon Sarony
Archival Resource Key
1893
18
9
Scope and Contents
Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896) was an American lithographer and portrait photographer. He was known for his portraits of the stars of late-19th-century American theater.
Eugen Sandow (negatives) by George Steckel
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
10
Scope and Contents
George Steckel (1864-1938) was a photographer.
Eugen Sandow (for La Culture Physique)
Archival Resource Key
1937
18
11
Eugen Sandow's grave
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
12
Eugen Sandow (negatives)
Archival Resource Key
1930
18
13-14
Eugen Sandow (negatives)
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
15
[Schumacher Portraits, unidentified]
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
16
Sandow's nephew
Archival Resource Key
circa 1920
18
17
Mark Senet comedies
Archival Resource Key
undated
18
18
George Steckel, photographs of children and women
Archival Resource Key
1890s-1920s
18
19
George Steckel, interior of home, Corvina, California
Archival Resource Key
1936
19
1
[George Steckel?]
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
7
26
5
Henry Steinborn
Archival Resource Key
1918
19
2
Karl Swoboda
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
3
Theater marquis
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
4
Thompson and Earle Liederman
Archival Resource Key
1924
19
5
Albert Treloar
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
6
Professor L. Vissaguet
Archival Resource Key
1952
19
7
D. Waldrow
Archival Resource Key
1941
19
8
Strongman on bike
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
9
Strength in Art Album
Archival Resource Key
undated
20
8
Florenz Ziegfeld
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
10
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
undated
19
11
Photographer's Association of America, diploma of excellent photography to George Steckel
Archival Resource Key
1889
20
9
Prominent Portrait Photographers of the United States of America, Compliments of the New York Sunday Telegraph (collage)
Archival Resource Key
undated
26
6
Desbonnet, stereopticons of strongmen
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
1
Ivorytypes of Eugen Sandow (by George Steckel)
Archival Resource Key
1893
21
2
Ivorytypes of Eugen Sandow (by George Steckel)
Archival Resource Key
1893
21
3
Strongmen posing, glass plate negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
4
Unidentified man, glass plate negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
21
5
Eugen Sandow glass plate negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
1
Eugen Sandow glass plate negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
2
Eugen Sandow glass plate negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
3
Eugen Sandow glass plate negatives
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
4
Award medals (related to photography) of George Steckel
Archival Resource Key
undated
22
5
Eugen Sandow, glass plate negative
Archival Resource Key
undated
24
2-5
25
1-4
Unidentified man, sitting in chair and Mechanics Institute letter to George Steckel
Archival Resource Key
1893
26
1