MORE IDEAS ABOUT FASHION & GRAPHIC DESIGN: Portraits of Boxers

Ace Hudkins

The Harry E. Winkler Photographic Collection includes more than 7,500 different boxing related images in various formats. Winkler was a longtime Los Angeles area fight figure and California correspondent for The Ring magazine from 1939 to 1953. He is best remembered, however, for his extensive collection of boxing photographs, many of which were acquired by the University Libraries of Notre Dame in 1977. Highlights of the collection include close to 4000 4 x 5 inch glass negatives, mostly taken in California in the 1920s and 30s. These are typically posed portraits, of individuals or groups; virtually no fight scenes are included. Among the boxers best represented (by more than 30 plates) are: Sgt. Sammy Baker, Newsboy Brown, Tony Canzoneri, Bert Colima, Speedy Dado, Jack Dempsey, Joe Dundee, Jackie Fields, Ace Hudkins, Les Kennedy, Fidel LaBarba, Jimmy McLarnin, Tod Morgan, Tommy O'Brien, Lee Ramage, Baby Sal Sorio, Bud Taylor, and Mickey Walker.