Crowds at Star Dempsey, Carpentier fight – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Crowds at Star Dempsey, Carpentier fight, [ca. 1921] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ca/cabb950f1d39-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Crowds at Star Dempsey, Carpentier fight comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Crowds at Star Dempsey, Carpentier fight
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Crowds fill the grounds for the Dempsey-Carpentier heavyweight bout, held in July 1921 at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey. The match between champion Jack Dempsey and French challenger Georges Carpentier was one of the first sporting events to take in more than a million dollars at the gate, and it drew spectators from well beyond the local area. Carpentier, a decorated veteran of the First World War and a former light heavyweight champion, was widely admired in America, which helped make the fight a national event. The National Photo Company, which made this glass negative, specialized in news and event photography, and its plates preserve the scale of occasions like this one.
| Created / published | [ca. 1921] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 6,010 × 4,334 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-251325 |
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