Published by Strength & Health Magazine, this calendar features many of the greatest Mr. Americas and Mr. Canadas of the...
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With the assistance of our donors, the Stark Center has committed to making the contents of its unique collections available to the world through a wide range of digitization projects. These include digitized books, magazines, and scrapbooks.
The Moscow Dynamos, football champions of the U.S.S.R., visited Britain after WWII. Their successful tour, in which they defeated Cardiff...
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Published by Strength & Health Magazine, this calendar features many of the greatest weightlifters of the era. Each month features...
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Joe Louis Barrow, known as “The Brown Bomber,” was arguably the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. His career spanned...
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The Chicago Park District Recreation Division published this Weightlifting Instruction Manual originally in 1939 and followed it up with a...
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The Stars of the Mat booklet is part of the Ottley Coulter Collection. Ottley was an American strongman, circus performer,...
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The University of Texas has hosted many interscholastic championship events over the years in every sport imaginable. This booklet, generously...
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Early pioneer of professional tennis, University of Texas Longhorns Hall of Honor member, and U.S. Davis Cup Coach, Bruce Barnes,...
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Bruce Parkhouse Barnes was an American tennis pro whose career bridged top-flight college play and the early professional tennis tours...
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Max MacLevy rented the property from James L. Ewell and moved to the old 65 acre Babylon Westminster Kennel Club...
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The origins of Swedish Massage are credited to a Swedish physiologist named Per Henrik Ling, who lived from 1776-1839, and...
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Dennis Tinerino was a prominent bodybuilder in the 1960s and 1970s. He won the Mr. Universe title four times in 1968, 1975,...
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This scrapbook was compiled by Leona Kellum and includes events and people from the 1920s during her time as a...
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On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into law, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in educational programs receiving federal...
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Strength & Beauty are a series of booklets published by Rosslyn News out of Studio City, California. These booklets showcase...
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In December 1953, the Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation published an article, “Muscular Fitness and Health,”...
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Bob Hoffman was an American entrepreneur who rose to prominence after buying the Milo Barbell Company in 1935 and selling his...
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George F. Jowett was one of the first to offer strength correspondence courses to people at a time when there...
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W.L. Carquest was a British World Champion Weight-Lifter at the turn of the 20th Century. He first gained the 8...
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Alan Calvert was an American weightlifter, businessman, magazine publisher, and the author of several books. He was the founder of...
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Professor Anthony Barker was a great Oldtime Strongman in the New York Area in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s....
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Chuck Sipes was born in 1932 and started weightlifting to make a high school football team and ended up being...
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A booklet of boxers, wrestlers, strongmen, weight-lifters, bodybuilders…hundreds of photos, each with name of bodybuilder underneath, but no other text....
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Walt Baptiste was a renowned and much loved San Francisco leader and legend, a patriotic American, a leader and a...
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Beginning with the very first graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin, the game of football has long...
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