Gunboat Smith & Pelky, 1/8/14 – Historic Print
(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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Step back in time with Gunboat Smith & Pelky, 1/8/14, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gunboat Smith & Pelky, 1/8/14
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Heavyweight boxer Gunboat Smith is shown here alongside a second fighter identified only as Pelky, in a sitting the record dates to January 8, 1914. The title comes from caption information the Bain News Service supplied with the negative, which has not been independently verified, so the name of the second man should be read with some caution. Bain's glass negatives were made for newspaper reproduction, and their quick, sharply focused portraits give a useful picture of the sporting world of the 1910s.
| Created / published | 1/8/14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,854 × 4,335 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-16351 |
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