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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BODYBUILDING) Mini-archive comprising 48 before-and-after photographs of an African American bodybuilder. With a lengthy personalized training schedule, which is fastidiously handwritten on multiple sheets and notes the subject's opinions about effectiveness of the different regimens. Silver prints, the images measuring 3 3/8x4 3/4 inches (8.4x12.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, up to three mounted to lined sheets, with handwritten notations, in ink, adjacent to the photographs. 1948-49 AND--Assorted ephemera, including an ALS to a bodybuilder, with a photograph of the Schmidt machine (1948); a typewritten training schedule; the press release for the Mr. America competition (1952); a blank application form for the Metropolitan Association of the Amateur Athletic Union; and one copy each of Muscle Bodybuilder (Aug. 1960) and Amateur Athlete (Feb. 1959) magazines. 1958-60
