<I>Le Boxeur JACK JOHNSON</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1913
name: label: Photograph by
content: Maurice-Louis Branger, French, 1874 - 1950
label: Subject of
content: Jack Johnson, American, 1878 - 1946
notes: label: Description
content: A black-and-white studio portrait photograph of Jack Johnson, captured in France in 1913. Johnson is depicted standing in front of a landscape studio backdrop. He stands in a boxing pose, his proper right fist raised, and his proper left fist held slightly back and up. He is shirtless and wears tight-fitting boxing shorts with a fabric belt tied at the waist and black leather boxing shoes. He looks directly at the camera. A typewritten label affixed along the bottom edge of the photograph reads [Le Boxeur JACK JOHNSON (B)].
label: Description
content: On the verso are several stamps and inscriptions. Handwritten at the top is “19/12/13. Le nègre Jack Johnson qui va combattre Jim Johnson our le titre de champion du Monde de boxe toutes categories.” Beneath this are several stamps. One, in blue, is for La Dépêche and has the date “31 mars 1914.” A second, in red, is for “Grands Journaux” and a third, along the bottom in blue, is a copyright stamp for “M. Branger.” There is also a date stamp, in black, “19 Dec 1913.”
place: label: Place captured
content: Paris, France, Europe
title: label: Title
content: Photograph of Jack Johnson
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Boxing
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1865-1921
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.96.1
objectType: label: Type
content: photographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper with ink
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 6 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (15.9 × 10.8 cm)