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<p>A sculpture of a man standing holding the discus in his left hand. A label on the base says "Discobolo di Alcamene?"</p>

Unlabelled photograph album

The James Gardiner Collection. Photographs.

James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album.

1 photographic postcard  ;  14.8 x 9.4 cm

The Discobolus of Castel Porziano. Photographic postcard, 191-.

A sculpture of Perseus with the head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Apollo. Process print, 193-.

A sculpture of a warrior. Photographic postcard after F. Heinemann, 191-.

Hermes. Photographic postcard after E. Herter, 193-.

Damoxenus. Photographic postcard after Antonio Canova, 193-.

A sculpture called "The Iron Age". Photographic postcard after A. Lanson, 193-.

An angel. Photographic postcard, 193-.

A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Process print after Jean Turcan, 192-.

Zeus. Photograpic postcard, 193-.

A naked man holds aloft a torch to illuminate a monster. Photographic postcard by S. Schneider after a drawing, ca. 1910.

Cupid (?). Photographic postcard, 191-.

Antinous. Photograpic postcard by N. Stournaras, 1968.

A sculpture of an archaic rider. Photograpic postcard by N. Stournaras, 196-.

The wrestler and boxer Agias. Photograpic postcard by N. Stournaras, 196-.

Hermes. Photograpic postcard by N. Stournaras, 196-.

Cain replies to God "Am I my brother's keeper?". Process print after E. de Pury, 191-.

Two men wrestling. Photograpic postcard, 193-.

A warrior. Photograpic postcard, 191-.

Zeus fighting the Giants. Photograpic postcard, 191-.

Half-naked men carrying industrial supplies. Photograpic postcard after C. Meunier, 191-.

Odysseus and the Sirens. Colour process print after O. Greiner, 190-.

A sculpture of the dying Achilles. Photographic postcard attributed to L. Jovanoviteli, 1916-, after E. Herter.

A boy, naked and sitting with his head bowed, resting on his knees. Process print after J. H. Flandrin, 193-.

Theseus. Colour process print, ca. 1979.

A dying gladiator. Photograpic postcard, 191-.

Mercury discovering the caduceus. Photographic postcard by Neurdein frères after A. Idrac, 191-.

A seated man embracing the legs of a standing woman. Photograpic postcard after Fritz Klimsch, 192-.

The charioteer of Pelops. Photographic postcard by W. Hege, 193-.

Hermes. Photograpic postcard, 190-.

Hermes. Photographic postcard by W. Hege, 193-.

Caracalla. Photograpic postcard, 191-.

Hermes. Photograpic postcard by W. Hege, 193-.

Augustus Caesar. Photographic postcard, 190-.

The Ludovisi Mars. Photographic postcard, 190-.

The dancing faun. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Cupid with his bow. Photographic postcard, 191-.

The Apoxyomenos. Process print, 191-.

The Last Judgment. Process print after Luca Signorelli., 191-.

Antinous. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Caracalla . Process print, 191-.

The Barberini or drunken faun. Process print, 192-.

A boy flying in the arms of a siren. Photographic postcard after D. Puech, 191-.

The Belvedere torso. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Cupid. Photograph, 192-.

Antinous. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Creugas. Photographic postcard after A. Canova, 191-.

Oedipus and the Sphinx. Process print after J. A. D. Ingres, 192-.

Mercury. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Perseus slaying Medusa. Photographic postcard after L.-H. Marqueste, 191-.

The Discobolus. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Wrestlers. Photographic postcard after J.P. Molin, 191-.

Gilliat seized by the octopus. Process print after E.J. Carlier, 191-.

Moses. Photographic postcard after Michelangelo, 195-.

Damoxenus. Process print after A. Canova, 191-.

The Ludovisi Mars. Photographic postcard, 191-.

The Discophorus, standing. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Saint Sebastian. Process print after G.A. Bazzi, il Sodoma, 192-.

"The age of bronze". Process print after Auguste Rodin, 190-.

Saint Sebastian. Process print after Pietro Vannucci, il Perugino, 190-.

Saint Sebastian. Process print, 190-.

Saint Sebastian. Process print after Guido Reni, 190-.

A workman wearing a protective apron and overshoes. Process print after Constantin Meunier, 190-.

A bronze tripod with three satyrs sculpted for the legs of the tripod. Photographic postcard, 195-.

A man using scales to weigh his genitals. Process print, 190-.

The drunken Hercules urinating. Photographic postcard, 196-.

A bronze statue of a man holding a robe over his naked body. Process print, 193-.

Three blacksmiths with hammers. Photographic postcard after F. Nylund, 195-.

A man holding his arm aloft while sexually aroused. Process print, 193-.

An athlete. Photographic postcard after J. Börjeson, 193-.

Achilles. Photographic postcard, 190-.

Hercules. Photographic postcard, 191-.

A blind man carrying a paralyzed man. Photographic postcard by ND after Jean Turcan, 192-.

Caracalla. Photographic postcard, 192-.

The Farnese Hercules. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Eduard von Winterstein. Process print after K. Freund, 192-.

"Temptation": a naked man and women relaxing on hay with goats. Photographic postcard after Jan Styka, 190-.

Three men of the Masai tribe. Photographic postcard by S. Skulina, 195-.

Four African men with numbered cards hanging from their necks: a slave auction (?). Process print, ca. 1904.

A native of Papua, New Guinea with several children. Photograph, 192-.

A "young Arab" boy smiling towards the viewer. Process print, 192-.

A "young Arab" boy wearing colourful garments. Colour process print, 193-.

A young Arab boy wearing colourful garments. Colour process print, 193-.

A "native" boy wearing patterned garments. Process print, 193-.

A young Arab boy wearing patterned garments. Photograph, 192-.

An Arab boy wearing patterned garments. Process print, 19--.

An Arab man wearing coloured garments. Colour process print, ca. 1921.

A "young Arab" boy wearing plain garments. Process print, 192-.

An Egyptian Bedouin man. Process print, 192-.

A Palestinian shepherd. Process print, 193-.

A "native" boy wearing patterned garments. Photograph, 192-.

"Mohamed" wearing patterned garments. Process print, 192-.

A "young Arab" boy wearing striped garments. Process print, 192-.

"Little Ali" wearing striped garments. Process print, 192-.

Algeria: three "young Arab" boys piping. Process print, ca. 1923.

A Neapolitan boy smoking a pipe. Photographic postcard by A. Finzi, 191-.

Two boys wearing pale garments. Process print, 193-.

A Sicilian youth among almond trees by the sea. Process print, 190-.

Two boys posing with cigarettes. Photographic postcard by A. Caggiano, 190-.

Neapolitan boys posing in a line. Photographic postcard, 19--.

A boy seated on a rock, his head resting on his knees. Process print after J. H. Flandrin, 193-.

Egypt: three children playing in sand. Process print, 192-.

Boys swimming naked at Newlyn, Cornwall, 1893. Process print by F. Frith & Co., 190-.

Taormina: ruins of the ancient Greek theatre. Process print by F. Galifi Crupi, ca. 1923.

Five Zulu men standing in a line holding shields. Colour process print, ca. 1909.

Five naked youths relaxing on a terrace on the bay of Naples. Photographic postcard by W. von Gloeden, 19--.

A Swiss farmer standing outside a chalet holding a bucket of fresh milk. Photographic postcard, 19--.

Two men standing side by side in the woods. Photographic postcard, ca. 1910.

A Swiss mountain guide in profile carrying heavy rope. Photographic postcard by E. Gyger, 193-.

A Samoan man wearing an elaborate head garment. Process print by A.J. Tattersall, ca. 1910.

A young Indonesian man cutting up coconuts. Process print, ca. 1906.

Two Ceylonese tree climbers in the canopy. Process print, 19--.

Sicilian boys posing in antique dress. Photographic postcard by W. von Gloeden, 19--.

Young men posing naked on a terrace. Photographic postcard by W. von Gloeden, 19--.

A Sicilian young man playing the flute. Photographic postcard, 190-.

A naked man sits under a tree in the moonlight. Photographic postcard, 190-.

Laurence Woodford in a starting pose for running a race. Photographic postcard, 192-.

A male waterpolo team pose in a line. Colour process print, 193-.

Swimmers, officials and spectators at the Paris Olympics. Photographic postcard by A. Pétin, 1924.

"August Blue" by H.S. Tuke. Colour process print, 196-.

"Ruby, gold and malachite" by H.S. Tuke. Colour process print, 196-.

"August Blue" by H.S. Tuke. Process print, 192-.

An athletic man poses in dark briefs. Process print, 195-.

An actor poses as a classical sculpture of a gladiator. Photographic postcard, 190-.

A flying trapeze artist displaying his upper body. Photographic postcard, 193-.

Actors pose as "The Wrestlers" at the London Pavilion. Photographic postcard, 193-.

An athletic man poses with his back to the viewer. Photographic postcard, 193-.

Red McCarthy, the Olympic ice skater and later stunt skater, posing as a silver ice-skating statue. Photographic postcard, 1936.

A nude man posing as a classical statue. Photograph by Henry, 192-.

A nude man facing away from the viewer. Photograph by Henri, 192-.

Paul Swan posing wearing a loincloth. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Ange Camilli posing as the Discobolus. Photographic postcard, 192-.

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