Sam Langford, boxer, in the corner of a ring between 2 staff members
Item Overview
- Title
- Sam Langford, boxer, in the corner of a ring between 2 staff members
- Date Created
- [between 1902-1923]
- Date
- 1902/1923
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Sam Langford was a black Canadian boxing standout of the early 20th century, from about 1902-1923. Called the "Greatest Fighter Nobody Knows," by ESPN, he was rated no. 2 by The Ring on their list of "100 greatest punchers of all time."
Photograph of boxer Sam Langford in the corner of a boxing ring wearing shorts and boxing gloves, between 2 staff members, men wearing suits and caps.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
- Langford, Sam, 1883-1956
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Boxers (Sports)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_5452
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cvgmx
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .