Photographs of Jack Haines

PXA 7771

fonds

January 1930 to December 1949

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9680257

6 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 22 x 17 cm

Vendor catalogue notes ‘apparently from the collection of his trainer Jack Dunleavy’.

6 gelatin silver photographic prints of Australian Middleweight Champion boxer Jack Haines taken between January 1930 and December 1949

1. "Haines' home, 24 Cambridge St, Paddington". Dated 5 January 1930

2. Posed portrait of Jack Haines and his manager and trainer, Jack Dunleavy. Dated 2 August 1930. Newspaper clipping featuring the image is pasted on verso.

3. John Haines Snr, Jack's father, and Jack Dunleavy visiting Jack Haines at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Dated 29 December 1930. Newspaper clipping featuring the image is pasted on verso.

4. "Looking well, happy again; Jack Haines, the boxer convalescing at his home in Cambridge St, Paddington". Dated 4 February 1931. Newspaper clipping featuring the image is pasted on verso.

5. Jack Haines and Ambrose Palmer, "his opponent in the fight in which [Jack] was injured" taking afternoon tea at Haines' house in Paddington. Dated 11 February 1931. Newspaper clipping featuring the image is pasted on verso (mostly worn away).

6. Jack Haines. Dated 21 December 1949. Newspaper clipping featuring the image is pasted on verso.

Also includes a flyer "Brilliant Aussie boxers in New Year's biggest battle" advertising the Palmer versus Haines fight at Sydney Stadium on 1 November 1930

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Date range taken based on earliest stamps on verso of each photographic print. All prints are stamped with multiple differing dates.