[SPORTS]. Items rel. to Af. American athletes incl. Jack Johnson, Joe Gans, & Coach Eddie Robinson.

Includes: 5 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. silver gelatin photograph of Joe Gans and Oscar Nelson touching boxing gloves before their match on 6 September 1906 (toning, spotting, glued to black paper on verso). The purse was set at $30,000 according to the caption in the negative. -- 2 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. tobacco card featuring an illustration of Joe Gans with one boxing glove raised out in front of him as part of Mecca Cigarettes' "Champion Athlete and Prize Fighter Series" (creasing and wear, with some soiling). Info on Gans and his record is printed on verso. -- 10 x 8 1/8 in. silver gelatin photograph of a group of notables at the LA Club in Los Angeles, taken by Hollywood photographer Ted Merriman, with his stamp on verso (light toning). Subjects pictured include Joe Louis, Herb Jeffries, Lionel Hampton, and BB King according to verso inscription. -- 6 x 4 in. silver gelatin photograph of Jack Johnson standing in the ring (toning, wear to edges). Verso inscription identifies the photographer as S. Demlinger and captions the scene as such: "Champ. J. Johnson in Ring. Nevada Fight." -- 6 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. illustrated cover featuring depictions of Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries, with facsimile signatures of each (some dampstaining throughout, light wear to corners). Postmarked at Reno, Nevada, 4 July 1910. -- 1964 Yearbook for Grambling College, an all-Black college in Grambling, Louisiana, featuring images of legendary football coach Eddie Robinson and listing then-current players being signed by the NFL (some loosening to binding, wear to extremities). -- And one other item being a 3 3/4 x 5 in. silver gelatin photograph of a tall, unknown African American man with an athletic build. -- Together, 7 items.

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American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana

[SPORTS]. Items rel. to Af. American athletes incl. Jack Johnson, Joe Gans, & Coach Eddie Robinson.

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