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A weight-lifter sits on a bench with his weights at his side as someone offers him a steroid injection; a warning not to share vials and used needles for steroids; advertisement for The Steroid Project as part of the Kingston AIDS Project funded by the National AIDS Strategy, Health Canada. Colour lithograph by Alice Whissell.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 668341i
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Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
Date: [1880?]
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A man lifting weights exposes himself as his trousers fall down in front of a crowd. Colour process print after Taylor, ca. 1984.
Date: [ca. 1984?]Reference: 2059398iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
A man s torso with a tiny dumbbell as a golden pendant, representing fitness for HIV-positive people. Colour lithograph by !nietslikken!, 199-.
!nietslikken!Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 689093i
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Mr. F.A. Canfield, the strongest man in the world : whose extraordinary strength have gained for him the title of the American Samson!.
Date: [Between 1840 and 1850?]