Records. Liederman, Earle E.-Life and Health (inclusive), 1909-1971.

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Records. Liederman, Earle E.-Life and Health (inclusive), 1909-1971.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Earle E. Liederman, promoter of a physical fitness and body-building course, 1921-1932; Robert Ellis Liefmann, maker of a controversial treatment for asthma, 1962-1971; LIFE, a popular magazine, which opposed the the AMA and allopathic medicine, 1909-1919; and LIFE AND HEALTH, a popular health advice magazine, 1917-1967.

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