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Boxing

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Images from the collections

Images about Boxing

34 images from works
  • Two men in posing pouches face one another and exchange, parry and dodge blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two men in posing pouches face one another and exchange, parry and dodge blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two bare-chested gay men in boxer shorts, one placing a hand with a boxing glove in the groin area of the other man; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for gay and bisexual men by the Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske. Lithograph by Robin Skjoldborg, ca. 1995.
  • A boxer raises his bandaged fists which bear the letters: 'Fuck safe'; advertisement for gay men to use precautions by Gay Men Fighting Aids. Colour lithograph.
  • Two men boxing. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • James Figg the  pugilist on stage holding his sword. Etching..
  • A boxer representing St. Stephen's Review has knocked out his opponent who is representing the Hansard Union. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 21 February 1891.
  • Two men in posing pouches face one another and exchange blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two men in posing pouches stand, facing one another: one grasps the other, forcing him backwards towards the ground. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two men in posing pouches stand, facing one another, fists raised and exchange blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
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Works from the collections

47 works

    • Ephemera

    Free! If you act at once : my outline courses, telling the secrets of jiu jitsu, boxing, wrestling, balancing and performing feats of strength ... / Charles Atlas.

    Charles Atlas | Date: [1939]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two men in posing pouches and boxing gloves stand, facing one another, arms raised: one hits the other's left shoulder then backs away. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Eadweard Muybridge | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005743i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two men in posing pouches and boxing gloves stand, facing one another, arms raised, exchanging blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Eadweard Muybridge | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005740i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two men in posing pouches face one another and exchange blows. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Eadweard Muybridge | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2005758i
    • Student dissertations

    Gloves off : the campaign by the medical profession to abolish boxing / Aninda Kumar Mitra.

    Mitra, Aninda Kumar. | Date: 1995
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Combat
Wrestling
Safe Sex
Condoms
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

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