Senators taking lessons in physical culture from Bernarr Macfadden (Harris & Ewing, 1924)
photograph · 1924
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SUMMARY
A 1924 Harris & Ewing news photograph held by the Library of Congress (Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2016887214) and reproduced on Wikimedia Commons under a public-domain tag. The Library's own title names Bernarr Macfadden as the 'famous physical culture expert' leading the group, so the identification of Macfadden rests on the archive record. The photograph shows him directing a line of men in suits through an arm exercise outdoors before a stone building; the individual legislators are not named in this archive's caption because they cannot be distinguished by eye. Used as the case object image (the regimen demonstrated).
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The case object image, showing Macfadden’s regimen in practice. A 1924 Harris & Ewing press photograph held by the Library of Congress (LCCN 2016887214), reproduced on Wikimedia Commons with no known publication restrictions. The Library’s title names Bernarr Macfadden as the physical-culture expert leading the exercise, which satisfies the source-title identification rule for him; the other men, identified only collectively in the Library’s caption, are described here as members of Congress rather than named individually, since they cannot be told apart by eye. The image documents how Macfadden promoted his system: as public, demonstrable exercise.