Boxers (Sports)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
19th Century Vernacular Posed Boxing Photograph Album
Item — Box MSSP_2000: [Barcode: 00000039204151]
Identifier: MSSP_2000
Content Description
One vernacular photograph album with 23 leaves. The album contains a collection of 46 miscellaneous studio ferrotype portraits, mostly of pairs of men squared off as boxers. Most of the images probably date from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. A few of the subjects wear gloves or athletic clothing, but most of the subjects wear everyday attire with their fists raised for the camera. The subjects, who vary from image to image, are unidentified. The photographs were collected and...
Dates:
c. 1875-1900
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
Copy of Tommy Loughran's Personal Scrapbook [Facsimile]
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 00000039204359]
Identifier: MSSP_2012
Content Description
One volume of photocopied clippings, photographs, and other material relating to the boxing career of Tommy Loughran.A copied note at the beginning of the volume reads: "Thomas P. Loughran, 1634 Ritner Street, Phila. Pa. This book contains the clippings and results of all my boxing bouts and exhibitions except the first years of my career in which I did not bother with any clippings. My career started on December 9, 1919 at the Auditorium A.A. in Phila. at Sixth and...
Dates:
1897; 1919-1931; 2001-2005; Majority of material found within 1919-1931
ESCO Boxing Exhibit Cards Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP10093
Scope and Contents
This collection includes more than 300 exhibit cards featuring images of boxers. Cards are the size of postcards. The fronts of most cards contain an image of a boxer with his name and sometimes other information like hometown, nicknames, etc. The backs of cards from the 1920s often contain short bios and/or selected match results, and many have a postcard back for mailing. Some of the cards from the 1920s are tinted in different colors. Many cards, especially those printed after 1928,...
Dates:
1921-1960s
Meriwether Liston Lewis Boxing History Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_2002
Content Description
Bound typescripts of two unpublished works of boxing history, written by Meriwether Liston Lewis of Nashville, Tennessee. The first manuscript, "Gloveless Gladiators of America," is a history of boxing in America during the nineteenth century. The second manuscript, "Jake Kilrain: Athlete-Warrior-Gentleman" consists of four sections and is a full biography of Kilrain.
Dates:
c. 1930s; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1939
Scrapbook about the Death of Stanley Ketchel
Item — Box MSSP-2006: [Barcode: 00000039204342]
Identifier: MSSP_2006
Content Description
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about the murder of middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel in Conway, Missouri, on October 15, 1910. Most clippings are annotated to indicate the source and date. The newspaper clippings derive from a large number of different American newspapers. The clippings range in date from October 15, 1910 to October 20, 1910, which was the date of Ketchel's funeral. Gilt lettering on the spine reads "Death / Stanley Ketchel / Clippings / Vol. 1 / 1910 /...
Dates:
1910