Galento puts up 10-grand note as challenge to Joe Louis. Washington, D.C., Nov. 9. Roly Poly Tony Galenton today deposited with the D.C. Boxing Commission ten thousand dollars as a challenge to Joe Louis for a championship bout. Tony claims Joe Louis ran out on him when he accepted a bout with John Henry Lewis instead. Left to right - sitting- Secretary Harvey L. Miller of the D.C., Boxing Commission - Tony Galento, Joe Jacobs, his manager. Standing is Herman Taylor, Philadelphia promoter whose schedules bout between Galento and Louis was postponed because of Tony's illness, 11938
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A group of men sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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