Joe Rogers, posing as "The America Apollo", in gymnasium – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Joe Rogers, posing as "The America Apollo", in gymnasium. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Joe Rogers, posing as "The America Apollo", in gymnasium
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Joe Rogers appears here as "The America Apollo," a title the Bain News Service wrote on the negative, though its accuracy has not been verified. The pose, a classical display of muscular form staged in a gymnasium, belongs to the early twentieth-century vogue for physique exhibitions, in which performers imitated Greek statues to show off fitness and proportion. Bain's New York agency supplied news and feature pictures to newspapers, so images like this one reflect public interest in such performances as much as the men who gave them. The record gives no date, but the glass negative format points to the early decades of the twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,235 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-3638 |
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