Professional Boxer Jack Dempsey with family on vacation, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: Professional Boxer Jack Dempsey with family on vacation, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: July 30, 1935
Date: 1935-07-30
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Boxer Jack Dempsey with wife Hannah Dempsey and daughter Joan Hannah while on a cross-country vacation with his mother. Jack Dempsey was an American professional boxer and a cultural icon of the 1920s. He held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1919 to 1926. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His wife, popular as Hannah Williams, was a musical comedienne.
Related to the article, "Jack Dempseys En Route Here," Los Angeles Times, 29 Jul. 1935: 4.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Jack Dempsey, Joan ", Mrs. Hannah Dempsey; 7/30/35
Text on negative sleeve: 1601 - Aug 14 1935; Jack Dempsey, Joan " (daughter), Mrs. Hannah Dempsey; Fighter, 7/30/35

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Williams, Hannah
Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983
Dempsey, Joan Hannah, 1934-1994
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Daughters
Singers--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_9949
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dj3xn
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