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Title: Joe Louis
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
Joe Louis and his handlers (from left, co-manager John Roxborough, trainer Jack Blackburn, and co-manager Julian Black), after training at the Main Street Gym, a week before his heavyweight championship fight against Jack Roper at Wrigley Field. The champ looks relaxed--and with good reason. In the first heavyweight championship fight in L.A., he knocked out Roper in the first round. Photo dated: April 10, 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049060
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5475.
CARL0000052861
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17292
Subject: Louis, Joe,--1914-1981
Roper, Jack
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing
Boxing trainers
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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