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A black and white photograph mounted on card, of an unidentified male body builder. Image show the nude man standing on a large stone with his legs slightly apart and hands clasped behind his buttocks. The portrait is a side view of the man showing abdominal, shoulder and buttock muscles. One of a collection of photographs collected by Richard Jarrett, a well-known exponent of the breathing and exercise regime developed by Eugene Sandow. He was appointed by the Wanganui Education Board as an Honorary Instructor, and was employed to teach breathing exercised to schools within the district. He also ran the Wanganui School of Physical Culture at the Sandow Hall in Lower St Hill Street in the early 20th century and was employed as the Physical Education Instructor at the Winter School in 1904.
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