Welterweight Champion
Title
Welterweight Champion
Subject
Sports
Description
This Omaha Star clipping shows a welterweight boxing champ posing. The man’s last name appears to be Jakes, and is hand-dated from 1950. The clipping does not provide any more contextual information.
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Creator
Omaha Star
Source
Native Omaha Days, North Omaha History Harvest, 2011
Publisher
Omaha Star
Date
1950
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Format
still image
Type
image
Coverage
Omaha (Neb.)
Original Format
newspaper clipping
Files
Collection
Citation
Omaha Star, “Welterweight Champion,” History Harvest, accessed November 25, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/150.