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

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Reference:
2046086i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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view Laurence Woodford in a starting pose for running a race. Photographic postcard, 192-.

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Credit

Laurence Woodford in a starting pose for running a race. Photographic postcard, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of the amateur athlete Laurence Woodford posed nude leaning forward and balanced on a plank of wood. He is side-on to the viewer. The popularity of physical culture developed rapidly after the first professional bodybuilder, the Hungarian Eugen Sandow, first appeared in New York and London and as a music-hall turn in the 1890s billed as 'The world's strongest man'.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1920 and 1929?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; 8.7 x 13.7 cm

Contributors

Lettering

steady...(written in pencil, middle verso)

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2046086i

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Where to find it

  • Unlabelled photograph album

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    Closed stores

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