by Clinton Brown
Physical Culture was a magazine that ran from 1899 to 1951. It was founded by a man named Bernarr Macfadden, who used the magazine to promote body building and his theories on nutrition. Macfadden was a big believer in and advocate for fasting or, as some of us call it today, anorexia. Here’s a picture of him being visited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
And below is a small sampling of the body-obsessed covers of Physical Culture:
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by John Drew
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By Arthur Ray McCowen
by Clinton Brown
by Jay Weaver
by Jay Weaver
by Jay Weaver
by John Drew
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Through the Shattered Lens 