William Bankier billed as 'Apollo, the Scottish Hercules', was a strongman stage performer who in 1915 and 1919 was also 'King Rat' of the showbusiness charity the Grand Order of Water Rats.
William Bankier
Bankier harness-lifting an elephant
Bankier as 'Apollo, the Scottish Hercules'
Eugen Sandow was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia. He was born in Königsberg, and became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy.
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 was published in 1897 shortly before the start of his monthly periodical.
"A New Sandow Pose (VIII)" from Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture (1902)