Illustration depicting female gymnasts: apparatus such as the bar, the ropes, or climbing frames which developed muscle were considered unsuitable for women. Instead female exercises were based on bending, stretching and swinging to encourage graceful carriage. The Rundlauf: a May-Pole like apparatus where the girls ran in a circle , each holding a bar suspended from the pole by a rope. Dated 19th century

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