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Large vintage 8.75 x 11.25 paperstock portrait photo of Charles Atlas, depicting the legendary bodybuilder in a classic flexing pose wearing his trademark leopard-pattern trunks, signed in fountain pen, “Charles Atlas, 1933.” In fine condition, with some light creasing and soiling in the wide borders.
Dated at the height of Atlas's celebrity in 1933, the photograph originates from the period when his Dynamic Tension correspondence course was transforming him into America's most recognizable physical-culture advocate. Through an enormously successful national advertising campaign, Atlas promoted a vision of self-improvement through exercise, reaching millions of readers and helping establish the modern fitness industry.
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