"Johnson-Ketchel Contest, San Francisco"
1909
Artist, American, born 1872
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print (real photo postcard)
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 8.8 × 13.8 cm (3 7/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2023.39.119
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right in negative: DANA / Photo. / S.F.; across top: JOHNSON-KETCHEL CONTEST. S.F. OCT 16. 09. WON BY JOHNSON. 12 ROUNDS. KO. JACK WELSH, REFEREE.; across bottom: LOFTUS. Britt. Jordan. Ketchel. Welsh. Foley. Johnson. Little. Lahey.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 11/16RAH / AF066A; center left printed in black ink perpendicular: THE SOMMER STUDIO / 210 n. 8TH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA.