Todd-McClean Physical Culture Collection

Scott Andrew Birdby Scott Andrew Bird | October 24, 2006
Filed in Equipment


Iron Game HistoryIt started more than 40 years ago at the University of Texas in Austin. Terry Todd and his weightlifting coach Professor Roy J. McLean shared a love of strength training history, and between them amassed a sizeable collection of books and magazines.

In 1975 Terry Todd - together with his wife Jan - purchased the strength training collection of the recently deceased Ottley Coulter (who himself had been collecting since the beginning of the century). This combined gathering has widened over the past 20 years to include items from competitive sports, hygiene, nutrition, the Olympic movement, ergogenic aids, naturopathy, vaudeville, anthropometry, and the academic discipline of physical education. It's now an enormous - and exceedingly rare - collection.

A few photographs from this superb gathering provide a glimpse into just how important it is. For a little more detail, try Iron Game History - looks like a great magazine.



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