New York Public Library Rare Books Division and the Walt Whitman Archive, iv; University of Iowa Special Collections and the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 5; Ohio Wesleyan University (Bayley Collection) and the Walt Whitman Archive, 8; Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, 11, 194; Feinberg-Whitman Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 12; Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, 13; School Gymnastics with Light Apparatus by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (Boston: D.C. Heath & Co, 1900), 24, 44; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., 28, 31, 48-49, 55, 56, 62, 64, 74, 79, 80, 112, 115, 120, 122, 123, 136, 149, 150, 152, 153, 157, 172, 196-197; Fistiana: Or, The Oracle of the Ring (London: Wm. Clement, Jun., 1841), 32; © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons, 33; Matt Morgan courtesy of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, August 26, 1873, 35; Indian clubs and Dumb Bells by J. H. Dougherty (1901, American Sports Publishing Company: New York), 40, 41; Manual of Swedish Drill by George Melio, (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1899), 42, 43; Miss Parloa’s Young Housekeeper by Maria Parloa (Boston: Dana Estes & Co, 1893), 50, 144; MacDonald, ed., “Superannuated Man,” The Last Essays of Elia, in The Works of Charles Lamb (Dutton, 1903), Vol. II, 59; The Illustrated Family Gymnasium by Russell Thacher Trall (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1857), courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20, 37, 78, 85, 101, 104, 105, 130, 142-143, 169, 176, 204; The Boys’ and Girls’ Magazine and Fireside Companion, Vol. 2, 1848, 75; Walt Whitman Archive, 76; New York Aurora, April 28, 1842, 77; John Wilkinson Co. Sporting Goods Catalog, 1875, 94; “Rare Sport. Sam Crane, Pitcher, Describes the Famous Irish Game.” Baxter Springs news. (Baxter Springs, Kan.), 22 Feb. 1890, 96; The Paul J. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 98; Lights and Shadows of New York Life by James Dabney McCabe (Philadelphia: National Publishing Company, 1872), 100, 118-119, 200, 201, 203; Winslow Homer, Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 4, 1858, 102-103; National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland, 109; Harper’s Weekly, July 12, 1873, 114, 162; “Manly Vigor” ad, in the Morning Appeal (Carson City, Nev.), May 16, 1896, 125; Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Oct. 30, 1858, 136; “First Impressions of Literary New York” by William Dean Howells, Harper’s Monthly June 1895, 141; The Boy’s Own Magazine, Vol. 2, 1868, 151; Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 10, 1857, 165; Ward B. Snyder’s Catalogue of Gymnasium Goods, Air Guns, etc. (New York, 1875), 171; “The Last Ball of the Season” by Augustus Hoppin, Harper’s Weekly, Feb. 20, 1858, 174-175; “Skating at Boston” by Winslow Homer, Harper’s Weekly, March 12, 1859, 184-185; Jacob Riis, featured in his book How the Other Half Lives (1890), 188; “View of Broadway” by Winslow Homer, Harper’s Weekly, February 18, 1860, 198-199.
ENDPAPERS
Manual of Swedish Drill by George Melio, (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1899); The Illustrated Family Gymnasium by Russell Thacher Trall (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1857), courtesy of the Library of Congress; Fistiana: Or, The Oracle of the Ring (London: Wm. Clement, Jun., 1841); Indian clubs and Dumb Bells by J. H. Dougherty (1901, American Sports Publishing Company: New York).
JACKET ART
Walt Whitman (1819–1892), age 37, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison., July 1854, Morgan Library & Museum; Illustration of Manly Strength (front jacket) and gymnastic exercises (back jacket): The Illustrated Family Gymnasium by Russell Thacher Trail (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1857), courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; “Manly Vigor” ad, in the Morning Appeal: (Carson City, Nev.), May 16, 1896; Two Men Boxing, Fistiana: Or, The Oracle of the Ring (London: Wm. Clement, Jun., 1841); Baseball shoes: Ward B. Snyder’s Catalogue of Gymnasium Goods, Air Guns, etc. (New York, 1875); Frying Pot: Miss Parloa’s Young Housekeeper by Maria Parloa (Boston: Dana Estes & Co, 1893); beef by Shutterstock.com.