Correspondence
name: label: Collection Photographer
content: Brooks, Warwick
label: Collection Collector
content: Coffin, Ernest Edwin
label: Collection Photographer
content: Steckel, Geo. (George), 1864-
label: Collection Creator
content: Falk, B. J. (Benjamin J.), 1853-1925
label: Collection Creator
content: Sandwina, Katie
label: Collection Creator
content: Weider, Joe (author)
label: Collection Photographer
content: Weston, Arthur
label: Collection Photographer
content: Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
label: Collection Donor
content: Manhart, Harrison D., II
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ernest Edwin Coffin Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1902-1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1152, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The correspondence is divided into two subseries, Subseries 2.1: Alphabetical and Subseries 2.2: Chronological. The correspondence is primarily between Ernest Coffin and other strongmen/bodybuilders and collectors and admirers of Eugen Sandow. Many correspondents wrote to Coffin seeking information about Sandow or to purchase Sandow memorabilia.