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  • Josef Soukup, a weight-lifter, wearing a studded leotard and medals. Process print, 191-.
  • Josef Soukup, a weight-lifter, wearing a studded leotard and medals. Process print, 191-.
  • A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
  • A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
  • D. Blazer, a strongman or wrestler. Process print, 192-.
  • D. Blazer, a strongman or wrestler. Process print, 192-.
  • Coronis (D. Blazer), a strongman, advertising Horlick's Malted Milk drink. Process print, 19--.
  • Coronis (D. Blazer), a strongman, advertising Horlick's Malted Milk drink. Process print, 19--.
  • Bobby Pandur. Process print, 19--.
  • Eugen Sandow, a strongman. Process print, 190-.
  • The strongman Alexander Zass, called "Samson", seen partially from behind. Process print after K. Barber, 1928.
  • Eugen Sandow, a strongman. Process print, 190-.
  • Eugen Sandow, a strongman. Process print, 190-.
  • Bobby Pandur. Process print, 19--.
  • The strongman Alexander Zass, called "Samson", seen partially from behind. Process print after K. Barber, 1928.
  • Eugen Sandow, a strongman. Process print, 190-.
  • Mr. F.A. Canfield, the strongest man in the world : whose extraordinary strength have gained for him the title of the American Samson!.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • Brazil: a member of the Von Wied expedition is digging into a turtle's nest to get at the eggs, another man wearing a long cape and a hat (Maximilian Prinz von Wied?) stands nearby, watching. Etching by W. Read.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.