Details
Title Philada. Physical Institute. [graphic] : Prof. Hillebrand & Lewis' gymnasium. N. E. cor. 9th & Arch.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 31 x 41 cm.(12 x 16 in.)
Description Advertisement containing vignettes showing male and female gym patrons participating in physical activities and the use of exercise equipment. Equipment includes parallel bars, pummel horse, pull-up bars, ropes, weights, and peg poles. Activities include shooting, fencing, boxing, gymnastics, and weightlifting. Exercise poles incorporated into the image as pictorial elements separating the vignettes. Also contains text advertising the hours of the establishment; the skills of its instructors; separate classes and drawing rooms for the different sexes; and the benefits of exercise for the "proper development of strength, health, mind and the cure of chronic affections" and the importance to ladies to produce "strength, health, beauty and grace."
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 567
See related tradecards for Hillebrand & Lewis, including one printed by Stein & Jones. [P.9349.147a and 8608.F.5b].
Subject Philadelphia Physical Institute.
Hillebrand & Lewis.
Gymnasiums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Physical education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Physical education for women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Exercise equipment & supplies.
SP1 Women.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Advertisements - H [P.8729.16]
Accession number P.8729.16