Tunney, Gene, 1897-1978
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gene Tunney Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates:
1858 - 1955; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945
Tip-Top Boxing: The Manly Art of Self Defense Board Game
Collection — MSSP10090 Box
Identifier: MSSP 10090
Scope and Contents
One board game for two players designed to simulate a boxing match. The metal board depicts a three-dimensional 8-inch by 8-inch boxing ring with ropes also made of metal. The game includes one metal and wood red spinning top and one metal and wood blue spinning top. Players spin the tops simultaneously, and the last top to fall wins the round. Players use wooden sticks inserted into peg holes to record the winner of each round. The game includes 12 red sticks and 8 blue...
Dates:
1922
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- Account books 1
- American Youth Day 1
- Appointment books 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Board games -- History -- 20th century -- Specimens 1
- Board games (game sets) 1
- Boxers (Sports) -- Biography 1
- Boxing 1
- Boxing -- History 1
- Boxing -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Business records 1
- Calendars (documents by form) 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Ephemera (general object genre) 1
- Fighting Marine 1
- Game pieces (game elements) 1
- Gameboards (board game elements) 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Postcards 1 + ∧ less
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