Clark, W R :Photographs of early acrobatics and sports

Photographs of acrobatics performed by members of Northey's School of Physical Culture, both indoors and outdoors, and interior photographs of the school itself. The interiors include the dressing room, the bathroom and equipment such as dumbells, boxing gloves, fencing foils and masks, indian clubs, vaulting horse, mats etc. Men are shown using fixed medicine balls for boxing practice. On the walls of the school are inspirational slogans and pictures of strong men such as Sandow. The other photographs are: J P Northey holding a rifle on the Otago Peninsula; W R Clark outside Otago University; and a group of people at De Beche Hut in Mount Cook National Park including a man called Smith who later died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. A lot of the photographs are captioned on the reverse. The only identified photographers are K H Shea and Esquilant.

Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s).

Physical Description: Loose photographic prints, one mounted.