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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
Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP10029
Scope and Contents
The Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers comprises nine boxes and one oversize box of materials collected by Tony Santos and his family relating to professional wrestling primarily from the 1950-1960s. The collection contains materials relating but not limited to subject files, correspondence, posters and promotional materials, magazines, financial information, and printing plates. Subject files primarily contain photographs and embossed mat boards used for printing and creating...
Dates:
1944-1977