Boxing Gloves worn by Jack Dempsey
date: label: Date made
content: 1920
name: label: user
content: Dempsey, Jack
notes: label: Description
content: Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) wore these gloves in a winning title fight against Bill Brennan (1893-1924) at New York's Madison Square Garden on December 14, 1920. Dempsey, a hard hitter from Manassas, Colorado, was one of the most emblematic figures of the period known as "The Roaring Twenties."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Boxing
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Chicago Historical Society, through Ellsworth H. Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0360.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0360
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0360.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gloves, Pair of
label: Object Name
content: boxing gloves
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather; cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; single glove: 11 in x 6 in x 4 in; 27.94 cm x 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm