(BODY-BUILDING.) MELVIN WELLS. Silver print photograph, 10 x 7-1/2 inches * Strength and Health Magazine, featuring Melvin Wells. Copiously illustrated magazine, large 4to, original pictorial wrappers. Np, circa 1949-1950
A photograph of the first professional African American body builder, Melvin Wells (1919-1994) of Buffalo, New York. Wells, who bears an uncanny resemblance to comedian Eddie Murphy, was state champion of New York in 1949.
