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[Boyle's Thirty Acres, Jersey City, N.J.: Dempsey and Geroges Carpentier in arena before fight] – Historic Reproduction

[Boyle's Thirty Acres, Jersey City, N.J.: Dempsey and Geroges Carpentier in arena before fight], c1921. — historic photograph
[Boyle's Thirty Acres, Jersey City, N.J.: Dempsey and Geroges Carpentier in arena before fight], c1921.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Taken before the bout at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey, this photograph shows Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in the arena just ahead of their heavyweight fight. The contest on July 2, 1921, drew a crowd and receipts that made it one of the first sporting events to pass a million dollars at the gate, and Dempsey won by knockout in the fourth round. Photographs of the two men helped turn the match into a national event and showed how quickly boxing was becoming part of American popular culture.

Created / publishedc1921.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by F.C. Quimby. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,141 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160215

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