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Boxers Posing with their Coach

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Description: Six fighters in pugilistic poses, in the boxing ring with their coach. The Milwaukee Urban League provided community activities, like boxing, for children ...
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Boxing Class for Children

Date: 01 31 1948
Description: Group portrait of 12 boys enrolled in the 11 o'clock boxing class held at the University of Wisconsin boxing quarters on Saturday mornings with two instruc...
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Camp Wakanda Activity

Date: 07 27 1948
Description: Camp Wakanda YMCA campers activities include boxing. Two boys boxing with large boxing gloves are Lawrence Fish, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Fish, 842 Terr...
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Little Badger Boxing Classes

Date: 03 19 1949
Description: Eight boys watching a boxing match from outside the ring during the Little Badger boxing classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. Sittin...
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Young Boxers with Audience

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Description: Two young boxers posing kneeling in a ring touching gloves, while the referee crouches between them. An audience of unidentified youths are sitting and sta...
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"Imitativeness: Take Me Like a Prize-Fighter"

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Description: A group of boys take a boxing stance near two men standing on a street corner, in front of a building that has "Milwaukee Beer" painted on it.
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Stopping a Fight between Syl and Barney

Date: 09 1903
Description: Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat and holding the shutter release mechanism in his right hand, is stepping in to stop a possibly posed fight between Syl and Ba...
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Boys Playing Scott and Beauregard

Date: 1860
Description: An aunt, Mary, finds two boys, Johnny and Joe, fighting. One boy is an obvious loser. The text below reads: "Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing?...
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University of Wisconsin Boxing Tournament of Contenders

Date: 01 11 1957
Description: Group portrait of some of the entrants in the University of Wisconsin Tournament of Contenders which opens the boxing season.
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Little Badger Boxers Exhibition Match

Date: 02 22 1957
Description: Nine-year-old Jim Grann (left) and Bill Withers box during the "Little Badgers" exhibition contests prior to the Wisconsin-San Jose State boxing match at t...
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Studio Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two European American boys posed fighting, holding up their right fists as if punching. They are both wea...

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