The mounting menace of Detroit's Brown Bomber checked by a man already regarded as a has-been. Here is the dramatic scene as the dazed Joe Louis rocked on his knees for the final count of his fight with Max Schmeling at the Yankee Stadium, New York City [graphic].
still image
Photographic prints 1930-1940. gmgpc
1936 December 16 [from a photograph taken in June, 1936]
eng
Acme Newspictures, Inc. photograph.
No. 353038.
Title taken from news agency caption on item.
Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981.
Schmeling, Max, 1905-2005.
African Americans--Social life--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
Boxing--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c35659
Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...,"