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Gotch - Hackenschmidt Wrestling Match for World's Championship [shows wrestlers in outdoor ring and spectators in grandstand], Sept. 4, 1911, Chicago – Historic Reproduction

Gotch - Hackenschmidt Wrestling Match for World's Championship [shows wrestlers in outdoor ring and spectators in grandstand], Sept. 4, 1911, Chicago, Chicago : E. W. Kelley, publisher, c1911 Oct. 2. — historic photograph
Gotch - Hackenschmidt Wrestling Match for World's Championship [shows wrestlers in outdoor ring and spectators in grandstand], Sept. 4, 1911, Chicago, Chicago : E. W. Kelley, publisher, c1911 Oct. 2.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Gotch - Hackenschmidt Wrestling Match for World's Championship [shows wrestlers in outdoor ring and spectators in grandstand], Sept. 4, 1911, Chicago. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Gotch - Hackenschmidt Wrestling Match for World's Championship [shows wrestlers in outdoor ring and spectators in grandstand], Sept. 4, 1911, Chicago

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Few images from the period capture a sporting event on this scale as clearly as this stereograph of the Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt title match in Chicago on September 4, 1911. Its open-air ring and crowded grandstand show how large professional wrestling had become, drawing paying crowds that rivaled baseball games. Hackenschmidt, the Estonian-born "Russian Lion," had long been unbeaten, so the contest drew wide interest when Gotch, the American champion from Iowa, took the title. The card was published by E. W. Kelley of Chicago and copyrighted in October 1911, one of many stereo views sold to a public eager for images of the event.

Created / publishedChicago : E. W. Kelley, publisher, c1911 Oct. 2.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, gelatin silver.
SubjectsJ160778 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by E.W. Kelley. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; BI; Sports--Wrestling; Shelf. G-, Frank Alvin, b. 1878. H-, George, 1877-1968.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 806 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133219

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