LC control no. | n 2023015257 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Sandwina, Katie |
Variant(s) | Brumbach, Katharine, 1884- |
Birth date | 18840506 |
Found in | Katie, big and strong, [2024]: ECip galley (Katie Sandwina was born Katharine Brumbach on May 6, 1884, in a circus wagon in Austria. In the early 1900s, Katie took the stage name "Katie Sandwina," naming herself after Eugen Sandow, a famous bodybuilder hailed as the strongest man in the world. In 1911 she achieved the heaviest overhead lift ever performed by a woman - 286 pounds, a world record that wouldn't be broken until 1987) |