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Gymnastic exercises for 7-8 year olds in China. Colour lithograph, 1973.

Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, Queen Square, Holborn: the interior of a ward, with a teacher giving a gymnastics lesson. Photogravure after A. Forestier, 1908.

Children encouraged by their teachers to box as a positive and healthy recreation. Wood engraving by J. Leech, 1858.

A handbook of free-standing gymnastics ... : for teachers in elementary schools and kindergartens / by Ethel Adair Roberts.

L'éducation et la rééducation fonctionnelles de l'enfant / par Henri Diffre.

Guter Rath an Mütter über die wichtigsten Punkte der physischen Erziehung der Kinder in dem ersten Jahren / von Christ. Wilh. Hufeland.

Safety games and exercises / E. Guillen; translated [from the French] by Eric Northcott.

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A handbook of free-standing gymnastics ... : for teachers in elementary schools and kindergartens / by Ethel Adair Roberts.

L'éducation et la rééducation fonctionnelles de l'enfant / par Henri Diffre.

Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, Queen Square, Holborn: the interior of a ward, with a teacher giving a gymnastics lesson. Photogravure after A. Forestier, 1908.

Guter Rath an Mütter über die wichtigsten Punkte der physischen Erziehung der Kinder in dem ersten Jahren / von Christ. Wilh. Hufeland.

Safety games and exercises / E. Guillen; translated [from the French] by Eric Northcott.