Louis, Joe, 1914-1981
Person
Dates
- Existence: 19140513 - 19810412
Occupations
Places
- Lafayette, Ala. (Place of Birth)
- Las Vegas, Nev. (Place of Death)
Languages Used
- English
Found in 3 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
Nat Fleischer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2003
Scope and Contents
The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...
Dates:
circa 1910-1967
Odds and Ends of Boxing Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: BOX_750
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 75 scrapbooks mostly covering professional boxing with some amateur boxing content, as well. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the 1920s through the 1970s. Sources include Detroit daily newspapers, The National Police Gazette, and a variety of other weekly and monthly magazines but citations are rarely included. The collection is divided into several roughly chronological, multi-volume series. 21 volumes focus...
Dates:
c. 1928-1974