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Mettray penal colony, Mettray, France: a large area in a park set up for gymnastics and other sports to take place. Lithograph by Sauvé & Faivre after A. Thierry.

Men are performing a variety of gymnastic and physical exercises. Photolithograph.

A Bulgarian female acrobat standing on her hands.

Men, women and children are performing a variety of physical exercises. Photolithograph, 1888.

De arte gymnastica libri sex. In quibus exercitationum vetustarum genera, loca, modi, facultates, & quidquid denique ad corporis humani exercitationes pertinet diligenter explicatur / Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliviensis.

Ecole Normale de Gymnastique et d'Escrime, Joinville, Val-de-Marne: Belgian soldiers performing gymnastic exercises. Process print, 190-.

Indian clubs, and how to use them : a new and complete method for learning to wield light and heavy clubs graduated from the simplest to the most complicated exercises followed by an appendix on strength and strong men / by E. Ferdinand Lemaire.

Textbook of massage and remedial gymnastics / by L.L. Despard ; with two chapters contributed by Hester S. Angove.

Übungen / von Otto Thilo.

Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik, oder, System der ohne Gerät und Beistand überall ausführbaren heilgymnastischen Freiübungen als Mittel der Gesundheit und Lebenstüchtigkeit : für beide Geschlechter und jedes Alter / entworfen von D.G.M. Schreber.

Über die Bekämpfung der Rückgratverkrümmungen in den Volksschulen der Grossstädte.

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

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Textbook of massage and remedial gymnastics / by L.L. Despard ; with two chapters contributed by Hester S. Angove.

Übungen / von Otto Thilo.

Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik, oder, System der ohne Gerät und Beistand überall ausführbaren heilgymnastischen Freiübungen als Mittel der Gesundheit und Lebenstüchtigkeit : für beide Geschlechter und jedes Alter / entworfen von D.G.M. Schreber.

Über die Bekämpfung der Rückgratverkrümmungen in den Volksschulen der Grossstädte.

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