VICTORIAN GYMS & GYMNASTIC EQUIPMENT
VICTORIAN ADVERTISING
By
Jennifer Carnell
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Gymnastic Apparatus by Snoxell and Spencer of Old Street and Regent Street,
London.
'Patronised by the Army, Navy, Volunteer Clubs, and Gymnastic Societies'.
An advert from 1866.
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The Ranelagh
For promoting the health, beauty, and muscular development of the human body.
'This machine produces, by a few minutes daily use, the highest form of healthy
and bodily development, with perfect safety,
and without sense of fatigue; (...) therefore it gives a delightful exercise,
and is specially adapted to the most delicate child or strongest man.'
Made by Walery and Co. of the Strand, London.
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