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<p>Representing the 6th sports festival of the Sokol movement, Prague, 1912. To some, the homo-erotic implications seem inescapable in this poster and postcard design for an athletics tournament in Prague in 1912, depicting naked Greek wrestlers (James Gardiner)</p>

Unlabelled photograph album

The James Gardiner Collection. Photographs.

James Gardiner Collection: unlabelled photograph album.

1 print : process print, printed in colours ;  14 x 8.8 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 Discobolus. Photographic postcard, 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-.

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-.

A strongman prepares to drink a glass of the tonic Byrrh before performing his act. Colour process print, 19--.

A strongman has his hair combed by a lady; a parody of Samson and Delilah. Colour process print after E. Schlemo, 19--.

The Brauers Trio, a family of acrobats. Process print, 191-.

The three Mouliers, acrobats. Photographic postcard, 19--.

A fencer holding a foil in front of an elaborate window. Colour process print, 19--.

Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.

Three acrobats, called "Les Poly-Toss". Process print, 192-.

A man stands on a beach wearing a white bathing costume. Photographic postcard, 193-.

A strongman poses next to his weights surrounded by a crowd. Photograph, 19--.

Four acrobats performing outdoors in Luxembourg. Process print, 192-.

A strongman (Emile de Suyck?) invites a woman to volunteer to help him in his final feat. Process print, 1906 (?).

The Erikson Brothers acrobats, on the deck of S.S. Narkunda. Photograph.

A relief of an athlete holding a giant clock above his head. Colour process print, 1908.

"The Two Condons", acrobats. Photograph, 1951.

A wrestler (?) gazing upwards. Photographic postcard, 19--.

A wrestler inset centrally in a six-pointed star. Photographic postcard, 19--.

Michael Hitzler, a wrestler. Photographic postcard by Walery, 19--.

A wrestler flexing his biceps. Photographic postcard, 19--.

A young man wearing a bathing costume. Photograph, 19--.

A naked man sitting on fabric. Photographic postcard, 192-.

A naked young man lies with his back arched over fabric-covered furniture. Photographic postcard, 192-.

A naked young man leaning on fabric-covered furniture. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Young men bathing naked in the Tiber. Process print after Georges Paul Leroux, 1909.

A naked young sailor sexually aroused. Photographic postcard, 195-.

Two men engaging in anal intercourse. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Two men engaging in fellation. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Two men engaged in a sexual act, 189-. Photographic postcard, 195-.

A naked young man sitting on fabric-covered furniture. Photographic postcard, 192-.

Two men in drag, one fellating the other, 188-. Photographic postcard, 195-.

A young man wearing a red jumper and white briefs. Colour photograph, 195-.

A young man wearing shorts and holding a rope in a wood. Colour photograph, 195-.

Three male acrobats perform a human-pyramid. Photograph, 19--.

Three male acrobats perform a routine. Photograph, 19--.

Two male acrobats perform a symmetrical move. Photograph, 19--.

A naked man bending over to insert his penis in his mouth. Photograph attributed to V. Galdi, 189-.

Two men engaged in a sexual act within a domestic setting. Gouache, 19--.

Two nude Greco-Roman wrestlers. Colour process print, 1912.

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