1945 World's Featherweight Championship Poster
date: label: date made
content: 1945
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Boxing poster for the World's Featherweight Championship between Willie Pep vs. Phil Terranova. Yellow poster with red and black printing and images of the boxers - Willie Pep and Phil Terranova. The advertised fight was held on Feb. 19, 1945 and was won by Pep. Pep went on to have a 26-year career and is considered one of the best fighters of the 20th century and was named the number one featherweight by the International Boxing Research Center. His final career record was 229-11-1 with 65 knockouts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: sport
content: Boxing
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0128.06
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0128.06
label: accession number
content: 1982.0128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster, boxing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 in x 28 in; 104.14 cm x 71.12 cm