Tunney, Gene (James Joseph), 1897-1978
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1897-05-25 - 1978-11-07
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Boxers Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: BOX_760
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 41 scrapbooks about professional boxers. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain almost exclusively articles and photographs clipped from various newspapers and periodicals dating from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, although some of the material is retrospective. Sources for the clippings include daily newspapers and boxing periodicals. There are few citations included. Most scrapbooks are devoted to the exploits and career of individual...
Dates:
Majority of material found within c. 1930s - c. 1950s
Gene Tunney Family Letters Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_2001
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters were mostly written by Gene Tunney to his friend Robert R. Gros. The collection also includes three letters written by Tunney to other correspondents, notably Hamilton Fish III, one telegram from Gros to Tunney, and five letters/postcards from Tunney’s wife, Mary Lauder "Polly" Tunney, to Gros written mostly after Tunney had died. The letters primarily involved family matters, coordinating visits, and sharing family news, with some mentions of politics,...
Dates:
1938-1980; Majority of material found within 1955-1961
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 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945
Tip-Top Boxing: The Manly Art of Self Defense Board Game
Collection — MSSP10090 Box : [Barcode: 00000039198825]
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