Katie Sandwina was an Austrian-American circus strongwoman.
Katie Sandwina
Barnum & Bailey poster from 1914 advertising Katie Sandwina and her troupe. "Germany's beautiful Herculean Venus possessing the most perfect female figure".
Imaginative sketch by artist-reporter Marguerite Martyn of herself being lifted by Sandwina in front of a circus crowd, left, and a realistic Martyn sketch of Sandwina cooking dinner for her son and husband, right, 1911
Eugen Sandow was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia. Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy.
Eugen Sandow
1894 poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles, produced by F. Ziegfeld Jr. in one of his first productions
Strength, And How To Obtain It by Eugen Sandow published in 1897 shortly before the start of his monthly periodical.
"A New Sandow Pose (VIII)" from Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture (1902)