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Boxing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 175 Collections and/or Records:

Article on Women's Boxing, September 2001

 Item
Reference code: 178B45.6
Scope and Contents

Jennifer Hargreaves. Women’s boxing and related activities: introducing images and meanings in InYo: Journal of Alternative Perspectives on the Martial Arts and Sciences 1492-1669. September 2001. Typescript, November 2001. 13p.p.

Dates: September 2001

Articles, Monographs and Research Material, c1900 - 2001

 Series
Reference code: 178B45
Scope and Contents

Research material concerning Barbara Buttrick's career as a boxer and other boxing related topics.

Dates: c1900 - 2001

Articles on Women Boxers, c1900 - 1999

 File
Reference code: 178B45.3
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of article on women boxing history, from a scrapbook. 3p.p Two copies.

Dates: c1900 - 1999

Barbara Buttrick Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0083
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs, handbills and programmes relating to Barbara Buttrick’s boxing career and some material she collected related to boxing.

Dates: c1900 - 2001

Barbara Buttrick's Biography, 10 October 1952

 Item
Reference code: 178B45.7
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of Barbara Buttrick’s Biography. Typescript. 13p.p.

Dates: 10 October 1952

Battling Barbara Buttrick Handbill, 7 March 1949

 Item
Reference code: 178T46.2
Scope and Contents

Barbara Buttrick, the girl boxer banned by the Variety Artists Federation, Danvers and Dolaine, The 4 Jolly Rogers, Eno and Lane, Davide Starmer with Denise, Bob Nelson, Arthur Pond, Clement Minns. Red and blue type on white background with information about Barbara. Printed by Coronation Press, 330A Cricklewood Lane, London N.W.2.

Dates: 7 March 1949

Battling Barbara Buttrick Handbills, c1949 - 1999

 File
Reference code: 178T46.1
Scope and Contents

'Sensational English Girl Flyweight Boxer featured on Films- Stage- Clubs and Shows'. Black and red type on white background and black and white photograph of Barbara Buttrick posing with boxing gloves.

Dates: c1949 - 1999

Bertram Mills Circus Drawing, 24 December 1933

 Item
Reference code: 178V11.22
Scope and Contents

Ink on board drawing by Arthur Ferrier (1891-1973). Black and white illustration of circus acts including clowns, call-boy, boxing, kangaroo, female lion tamer, acrobat and juggling seal in individual windows with text, signed by Arthur Ferrier on bottom left corner in ink, on reverse in pencil 'Our artists sketches at Olympia', 'To Bertram Mills with the Editor's Compliments', 'Original of Arthur Ferrier cartoon from the News of the World Dec 24th 1933'.

Dates: 24 December 1933

Big Time Boxing World Title Fight for the Women’s Light Welterweight Championship of the World Poster, 19 April 2000

 Item
Reference code: 178R52.1
Scope and Contents

New Zealand. Black type on yellow background with black and white photographs of Wena Karaka and Marischa Sjauw.

Dates: 19 April 2000

Billy Wood Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0102
Scope and Contents

Collection of material related to Billy Wood travelling boxing booth, containing business records, photographs, correspondence, programmes, posters and other items of ephemera.

Dates: c1900 - 1979

Black and White Photographs of Barbara Buttrick and Boxing Related Postcards, c1900 - 1999

 File
Reference code: 178C130.1-59
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of Barbara Buttrick as a boxer, a boxing match with Joan Hagen, female and male boxers including Chris Dundee, Freddie Welsh, Freddie Mills, Gipsy Daniels, Willie Pastrano Bosco’s boxing booth, promotional photographs and boxing related postcards including Thomas Winter’s tombstone as well as Molly Tuchooki the tattooed woman.

Dates: c1900 - 1999

Blueprints of Plans and Elevation Drawings for Various Fairground Rides, c1875 - 1939

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178M15.34
Scope and Contents Plans and elevation drawings for various fairground rides, including No.2 car track, Whirlwind racer, Switchback frames for J. Whiting, Weymouth Ghost Train, No.1 and No.2 Swoops, No.1, No.2, No.3, No.11, No.16 (alterations), No.33 (extension), No.47, No.52, No.54 and No.64 Arks, No.30 Noah’s Ark, No.31 Ark extension and No.4 alterations to the front for Frank Codona, cut out of motorcycle, Yo-Yo, No.8 Ghost Train, survey of ground for the Ghost Train Westover Amusement Park Bournemouth and...
Dates: c1875 - 1939

Blueprints of Plans and Elevations for Various Fairground Rides and Details, c1915 - 1949

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178M15.33
Scope and Contents Plans and elevations for various fairground rides including No.24 Monorail, arrangement of swing boats, plan for Burton bridge widening, Collins Battersea cars, Wall of Death, Rocket Speedway, Coaster plan for John Collins in Yarmouth, No.7, No.8 and No.1 Ghost Trains, Weymouth and Ramsgate Ghost Trains, Monkey Roundabout, No.8 Dodgem for Yarmouth, plans for Leeds Amusement Park, No.48, No.49, No.57, No.53, No.52, No.68, No.22, No.29, No.35, No.66 and No.14 Dodgems, Codona Dodgem, No.1 Water...
Dates: c1915 - 1949

Boxing and Wrestling Magazine, March 1954

 Item
Reference code: 178G57.17
Scope and Contents

Boxing specialist journal containing black and white photographs and articles, including article on women’s wrestling. 84p.p.

Dates: March 1954

Boxing Booth Elevation, December 1934

 Item
Reference code: 178M15.33(l)
Scope and Contents

Front elevation of Stewart's boxing booth, scale 3/4".

Dates: December 1934

Boxing Cigarette Cards, 1990

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178Z24.3
Scope and Contents

Collection of Churchman's cigarette cards showing images of male legends of boxing from the 1930s.

Dates: 1990

Boxing Kangaroo Film, May - June 1895

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.2
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, filmed on a small wooden stage, showing a brief scene of a boxing bout between a boy and a kangaroo and refereed by possibly the animal trainer or showman, who appears to the left of the pugilists.

Dates: May - June 1895

Boxing Match Film, c1895 - 1896

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.5
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Birt Acres, showing an outdoor boxing match and ringside onlookers. Possibly Acres’ Boxing Match film in August 1896 or Boxing Match/Boxing Contest filmed in 1895.

Dates: c1895 - 1896

Boxing Match Sponsored by Fraternal Order of Police Programme, c1900 - 1999

 Item
Reference code: 178K54.5
Scope and Contents

Black type on off white background containing list of boxing matches including Rocky Randell vs Alfonso Estrada, Phyllis Kugler vs Battlin Butt Buttrick, Bobby Pericas vs Rod Campbell, Bo Willis vs Jim Tillman, Lanny Blackburn vs Ed Bailey, and Willie Simon vs Augie King. 2p.p.

Dates: c1900 - 1999

Boxing World and other sports Vol. 13 No. 3, November - December 1991

 Item
Reference code: 178G57.9
Scope and Contents

Boxing specialist newspaper containing black and white photographs and articles. 24p.p.

Dates: November - December 1991