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Jack Johnson portrait collection

Title: Jack Johnson portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1900?-1981?>

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Johnson, Jack	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
<13> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<3> photographic postcards : b&w ;
<6> photomechanical prints : b&w ;
<1> photoprint : b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Jackson. Collection includes numerous views of Johnson in boxing attire and boxing with a variety of opponents, such as, Joe Jeanette, Jess Willard, Jim Jeffries, Tommy Burns, and Sam McVey in the ring; other images include Johnson and a group of men outside the jail in Galveston, Tex.; with his trainers and sparring partners; shadow boxing with Marty Culter; couching Abe Simon, with one of his wives in Europe; and a wedding photo with another wife. Full, half and quarter length images are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

Group portraits – 1900-1949.
Portrait photographs – 1900-1949.
Photomechanical prints – 1900-1949.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1900-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger
Photographers include H.H. Morris, Rapid News Photo and others.
Some photographs have captions; some are duplicates; some prints are double-sided; some photographs are cropped; some bear airbrush marks; some photographs have written descriptive information.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Johnson, Jack

OCLC

NYPG085000567-F

Title

Jack Johnson portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1900?-1981?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Bryant. Photographer

Morris, H. H. Photographer

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)

Rapid News Photo (New York, N.Y.)

Underwood & Underwood.

Studio Piaz (Paris)

United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Johnson, Jack

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