Jimmy Sharman Senior and Junior and Jimmy Sharman's Boxing Troupe, photographed from ca.1910-1975

PXE 1030

fonds

ca.1910-1975

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Ephemera, Drawings

414143

Photographs - 35 silver gelatin photoprints - 25 x 35 cm. or smaller - Some mounted
Photographs - 1 Kodak photoprint - 21 x 26 cm.
Photographs - 1 silver gelatin proof sheet (26 images) - 21 x 26 cm.
Ephemera - printed, 2 magazine leaves - 25 x 20 cm. and 19 x 24 cm. - One has been torn to fit an oval paper mount
Drawings - 1 pen & ink sketch - 25 x 38 cm.

Jimmy Sharman Snr., born at Narellan, NSW, won fame as a southpaw lightweight boxer, winning 83 of his 84 professional fights, all by knock out. He established the Sharman Boxing Troupe which travelled agricultural shows all over eastern Australia for 45 years, including, most famously, the Royal Easter Show, where the Troupe became the institution of Sideshow Alley. His son Jimmy Sharman Jnr. began working for his father in 1945. Though he excelled at team sports, Sharman Jnr. was not a boxer. He took over the running of the Troupe in 1958 when his father retired. The Troupe continued until 1971 when changes in government laws made the continuation of tent boxing uneconomical. Sharman Jnr. continued to work the show circuit with a dodgem car business. He eventually gave up travelling and set up business at the Grundy Entertainment Centre at Surfer's Paradise. Sharman Jnr.'s son, Jim (James David) was born in 1945 and became a film and stage director

1. J[immy] S[harman] snr. Lightweight champion of the Riverina. c.1910
2. Jackie Hassan meets Jimmy Sharman [Snr]. Hassan, discovered in Charters Towers by Jimmy Sharman snr [was a] lightweight champion
3. Rud Kee & Jimmy Sharman snr
4. [Jimmy Sharman Snr]
5. [Jimmy Sharman Jnr], Carlaw Park, Auckland, 1939. Ray Steer's Combined Team in NZ
6. Temora Boy's at SPC, 1928. Sharman [Jnr], front [row], 3rd from left.
7. SPC 2nd Rep Football Team, 1928. Sharman [Jnr front row, 1st on left]
8. St Patricks, Goulburn, c.1928. [Sharman Jnr] 2nd row, 6th
9. Tennis team, St Patricks College, Goulburn. c.1928-9. J[immy] S[harman] jr front row, 2nd from left
10. St Patricks College, Goulburn. J[immy] S[harman] jr front right. 1930
11. Goulburn Secondary Schools Sports Association Cricket Shield [Team. Jimmy Sharman Jnr 4th from left] c.1930
12. St J[oseph]'s College, 1931. GPS Cricket Premiers, first time. [Jimmy Sharman Jnr 2nd from left, standing]
13. At St Joseph's Hunters Hill with Brother Henry. Very front row on left - J[immy] S[harman] jr
14. Western Suburbs Premiers '34. J[immy] S[harman Jnr] 2nd from right end
15. St Joseph's College while meeting Brother Henry, c.1965
16. Brother Henry? St Joseph's College, 1965
17. J[immy] S[harman] II. Rud Kee, former boxer, part of Sharman business
18. [Jimmy Sharman Jnr] with wife Christina, mother Violet
19. Sharman family with Jim Sharman
20. At Mareeba Rodeo with Rodeo Queen. J[immy] S[harman] jr attended Mareeba rodeos 1956-1973
21. Jack Hassan with J[immy] S[harman] jr, 1975
22. Jimmy Sharman II
23. Jimmy Sharman II in dodgem car business, 1972, Sydney Show
24-25. [Jimmy Sharman Jnr on dodgem cars]
26. Sydney Showground, 7/4/81
27. Taken at Garden City Shopping Complex, Brisbane, with an executive of David Jones (Liberace jackets commandeered from an exhibition at shopping centre at the time)
28. 3 generations of Sharmans (with old James Sharman)
29. 3 generations [Jimmy Sharman Snr and Jnr, Jim Sharman]
30. J[immy] S[harman] snr & jr
31. Tommy Uren, triple champion
32. Sydney Showground
33. c.1949 Syd. Show. J[immy] S[harman] II in middle
34. Winners of Fancy Dress Ball sent this to J[immy] S[harman] jr after they won. Queensland 1950s
35. [4 boxers]
36. The best by test. Jimmy Sharman, producer of champion boxers & champion wrestlers [publicity poster]
37. Still from "The Settlement". J[immy] S[harman] jr in middle
38. Dave Sands cartoon by Roy Ullyett of the London "Star"
39. [Magazine cutting of] original photo of J[immy] S[harman] boxing troupe, (Aroa?) Park, Temora, 1911.
40. Take a glove. Cartoon by Jim Russell. [Published in] Smiths Weekly, 1950
41. [Unidentified proof sheet]

Most images dated and identified on reverse in handwritten pencil
Related manuscript material of Jimmy Sharman Snr. (3 scrapbooks, 1912-1965? photocopies) are held at MLMSS 3672X (CY 2596: 104 frames)

"To Jim Sharman with regards from E. Teasdale, Regent Theatre, Ch. Towers Qld" -- handwritten in ink on reverse (4)
"Copyright John Fairfax & Sons Ltd." -- stamped on reverse (1,26,33)
"Copyright The Sun" -- stamped on reverse (29)
"Tweed Heads Fred Lange Stuidios" -- stamped on reverse (34)
"Prof Bloodgood's Photographic Emporium" -- stamped on reverse of mount (39)