IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack ...

Jack Dempsey is remembered as a fighter who left early, but that memory misleads more than it explains. He stepped away from ...

In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...

It’s an embedded piece of Montana folklore. In the summer of 1923, a handful of wide-eyed local boosters in Shelby managed to lure the world heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey, and a leading ...

It shouldn’t have ended the way it did. Not at that juncture of their careers. In July of 1927, aspiring heavyweight contender Jack Sharkey should have had his way with former champ Jack Dempsey. He ...