How to be a contortionist! or, Bending made easy : a practical self instructor
A self-instruction manual on contortion and bending published in 1896 at Suffern, New York, by Charles Eldridge Griffin, aimed at amateur performers and home learners. Its pictures are plain line engravings of a performer in backbends, a head-to-floor pose, and a crouched bridge, showing the body folded into strained poses a designer could borrow for figure studies or athletic motifs.
