Portrait of the boxer John Lawrence Sullivan , heavyweight boxing champion, with arms folded across his chest, late nineteenth century.
Plate 336 from Muybridge's 'Animal Locomotion' . Eadweard Muybridge was the first photographer to carry out the analysis of movement by sequence...
Gunner James Moir of Great Britain who won the British Heavyweight title from Jack Palmer in 1906, but lost to Tommy Burns in a fight for the World...
Caribbean-born bare-knuckle boxer Peter Jackson , 2nd December 1889. The descendant of a freed slave, he was born on the island of Saint Croix in the...
The body holt and neck double, wrestling display, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1896. A print from The Navy and Army Illustrated, 30th October 1896.
Half-length portrait of pugilist Jess Willard facing the camera, sitting in a boxing ring in a room in Chicago, Illinois, 1912.
Pugilist, Bitter Root Kid, standing in a boxing stance in front of a dark backdrop, Chicago, Illinois, 1916.
Boxer Kid Mitchell, posing with his left fist pulled back at his side and his right arm across his chest, Chicago, Illinois, 1908.
This photo illustrates the tremendous size difference between the champion boxers Les Darcy and Jess Willard. Willard stands a trifle over 6 feet 6...
Portrait of Joe Gans of Baltimore, nicknamed the " Old Master" and the World Lightweight Champion from 1902-1908.