Unusual artistic 14.75 x 18.5 print of Jack Johnson, the "Heavyweight Champion of the World," with the image made up of a delicately arranged biographical text. Imprinted at the bottom: "This Picture Contains LIFE and BIOGRAPHY and 15 ROUNDS of the Great Fight at Reno, Nev., on July 4, 1910." Handsomely cloth-matted and framed with a biographical caption to an overall size of 24.25 x 35.5. In very good condition, with overall creasing, dampstaining to the bottom, and several tears which appear to be repaired (not examined out of the frame).
The Johnson–Jeffries Prize Fight—known as 'The Fight of the Century'—was a boxing match between the first black world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, and the previously undefeated world heavyweight champion, James J. Jeffries. on the Fourth of July, 1910, in Reno, Nevada. Jeffries—who boasted that he had never been knocked down in a fight—fell three times to Johnson's punches, and was being counted out when his manager called the fight in the 15th round. Race riots broke out across the country over the following week, resulting in more than twenty deaths.
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