Post on 19-Dec-2015
Exercises – A Historical Perspective
A.K.A. - “Exercising from
the early 1900’s”
Library of Congress, [Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985] Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections Division
Children Exercising on a Roof
DN-0008025, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society
Children in Classroom
Cameraman, A. E. Weed. Hyde Park School, room 2. American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Filmed April 18, 1904 Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985, June 12,2006
What Fitness Component was being tested?
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• Flexibility• Strength• Muscular Endurance• Cardivascular
Endurance• Body Composition
Athlete Lifting Barbells
SDN-002637A, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society
Boys Doing Pushups
Perlitch, William, 1942 Oct., United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. 14/June/2006;
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Wilma Rudolph (and others) Running
United Press International photo; New York; 1961; World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection 14/June/2006
A Class in Motion
Cameraman, A. E. Weed. Central high school, gymnastic drill American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985, June 12, 2006,
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• Flexibility• Strength• Muscular Endurance• Cardivascular
Endurance• Body Composition
Children Being Weighed
Horydczak, Theodor, ca. 1890-1971, Children weighing themselves at Smyser School, Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Niver, June 14, 2006
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• Flexibility• Strength• Muscular Endurance• Cardivascular
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P.E. Class Doing Mountain Climbers
Bubley, Esther,. United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; Physical education class doing mass exercises in the gymnasium at Woodrow Wilson High School.
14/June/2006
P.E. Class Doing Squats
Bubley, Esther, 1943 Oct., Washington, D.C., Physical education class doing mass exercises in the gymnasium at Woodrow Wilson High School. 14/June/2006
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• Flexibility• Strength• Muscular Endurance• Cardivascular
Endurance• Body Composition