Vintage Boxing Champions

Black-and-white images of early 20th-century male boxers in action poses, showcasing strength and determination in their athletic attire.

Bat. Levinsky

Gus Platte - boxing

Kid Williams, Balto, Md. World's Bantamweight Champion 3/31/14

Carl Morris

Charlie White

Geo. C. Laney, Chaney i.e. George Henry Chaney, boxer

Tommy Ryan

Bat. Levinsky

Nat. J. Cartmell

Schaaf, Ernie

Oliver Kirk, American boxer and two-time Olympic gold medal winner

Joe Edwards

Gunboat Smith

Geo. Rodel

Jess Westergaard

Rudolph Unholz

Warnes (Middleweight)

Bob McAllister

Young Brown, 2/18/14 .

Jim Flynn

Boxer, Adolph Wolgast

Billy Sunday

Boxer, circa 1912, Wellington, by Zak (Joseph Zachariah).

Carl Nelson

Strongman , Circus performers. Leon Abdalian Collection

Edelmeir & Faust

Cy. Smith

Otto Flint

Anefo photo collection. Dutch Youth Championships Athletics. E. Kamerbeek, quadruple champion 110m horde of shot bullets, discus and javelin. 12 July 1953. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Rose Pitonof in leotard

Jack Johnson, full-length portrait, standing facing front, wearing boxing shorts and boxing gloves, circa 1910

Johnny Daly

Parks (Heavyweight)

Constant Le Marin

Swimming Champion, 1929, by William Oakley. F B Butler/Crown Studios Collection. Gift of Frederick B Butler, 1971.

Yussif Hussane

Two boxers, Studio shot

Yussif Mahmout

Pat Connelly

John C. Stoddart

A.F. Wilding

Jim Flynn

Fred Welsh

Strongman , Circus performers. Leon Abdalian Collection

Zybsyko

Photography from "Accounts for manufacturing at the State Railway's prosthetic workshop in Nässjö", 1932. Man with double prosthesis.

Poll photo collection. Advertising photography. Photo model grumpels as a boxer. 1932

Skating - Miss Nancy Rowe, a competitor in St. Paul Outdoor Sports Carnival Fancy Skating Contest, ice skating - Feb. 1st

Irving Brokaw ice skating: dancing on ice - front view

J.D. Nagle

Geo. Lurich

NSW Champion and record holder Peter Hanlin (Manly) in training to defend his shot - put time at Moor title at Moore Park under track on Saturday. January 18, 1954.

Yussif Hussane

H.R. Pearce & father. August 17, 1932. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency, Limited).

Dirty athlete ...

Clarence Ross, Winner, 1st National Long Distance Swimming Race, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, August 1925

Jim Jeffries, holding jumping rope in athletic ring

Bat. Nelson boxing

Poll photo collection. Reporting athletes. Discus marker. 1933

Photographic portrait of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968) a surfer and Kanaka Maoli competition swimmer, during the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games. Dated 20th Century

Jack Donaldson. July 13, 1951.

Bob Armstrong, Eddie McGoorty, Ed McMahon

Cook 12 15/-, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Male fencer portrait

Keep your eye on ball and transfer weight from right to left leg. October 01, 1948.

Phil Scott (former British Heavy Weight Champion preparing for his ring comback ***** contest ended in a *****. January 30, 1939. (Photo by Central Press Photos Ltd.).

Jos. Waitzer

Athlete of the Hamburg St. Pauli Turnverein on the Heiligengeistfeld. .

Photograph showing the French journalist, Raymond Vanker, running across the International Bridge from Irun to Hendaye with a child he was saving, whilst under intense gun-fire, 1936. Date: 1936

Anefo photo collection. Elinkwijk against Velox 0-1. Game moment. December 22, 1963

Fred Welsh

Gymnastics exercises..

Gertrude Ederle (1906-2003), American Swimmer, full-length Portrait in one-piece swimsuit on beach, Underwood & Underwood, 1925

Picture of the discuster ..

Athletic Champs 1929, 1929, Wellington, by Crystal Photographic House.

Scholz inspecting the track before his 200 m Olympic race in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Capt. Dray - Yale Relay Team

E. Chapman. May 02, 1952.

01/31/1913. The Danish wrestler Peterssen, winner of the current Championship. Photo: Calvache.

Jack O'Brien

Poll photo collection. Family pictures. Van der Polls stepdaughter Hans plays with a ball in a forest in the Veluwe. 1933

Paul Pons (1864-1915), stage name le Colosse, was a French wrestler. He won the first title as world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1898 (as opposed to the first Olympic victory, won two years earlier by Carl Schuhmann)

High jump competition during the Saint Louis Olympics in 1904, held between July 1 and November 23.

Anefo photo collection. Training boxer Luc van Dam in The Hague. On the scales. February 10, 1949. The Hague

Paris 16.2.1929. Winter sports festival organized by / the car on Lake Saint-Mandé. / Mademoiselle Barbey in the contest of figures. Mademoiselle Barbey in a contest of figures of artistic skating on Lake Saint-Mandé. Winter sports festival organized by the car on Lake Saint-Mandé. "Mademoiselle Barbey in a contest of figure skating figures on Lake Saint-Mandé". Photograph of Georges Devred for the Rol Agency. February 16, 1929.

`Atleta` The Athlete - Sculpture by Olga Niewska photograph of sculpture at the workshop.. Koch, Edward (fl. ca 1930-ca 1939), photographer

Anefo photo collection. National Crovation Championships 1954 in Heerenduinen IJmuiden. March 29, 1954. IJmuiden

Harold Abrahams in June 1921. Winner of 100 meter dash in 1924 Olympics

Anefo photo collection. Swimming competitions on Hoigeweg to Mother Triebelsbeke Adrie Slanderie. March 15, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Training European Roe Championships, Skiffeur Rob Groen. August 4, 1964

Anefo photo collection. Athletics Netherlands-Belgium-Switzerland. Shooting balls. Piet van der Kruk in action. July 9, 1967

Vintage Photograph. Older man holds his leg in locker room with a pained look on his face.

Photo collection Government information service. 1920. Undated. Deventer

Ricardo Zamora Martínez (1901-1978), futbolista catalán. Fotografía autografiada de 1922.

12/31/1916. Golf Champion. The Conde de la Cimera, winner of the national championship and the Infanta Doña Isabel cup.

The five first arrived ...

Two boys in boxing gloves engage in a round of boxing during an evening at a Boys Club Date: March 1929

Man in a fencing position (EV006256_H)

John Brush Hempstead, son of the New York Giants president Harry Hempstead and grandson of the late John T. Brush (former president of the New York Giants), throws out first pitch of Game One of the 1913 World Series at the Polo Grounds, New York (baseball)

John Henry Taylor, golf champion - for the fifth time in his career won the British open golf championship

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