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Norman Lindsay (1879–1969)
Tommy Burns versus Jack Johnson, World Heavyweight Boxing Championship,
Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, Saturday, 26 December 1908
colour photograph of image; 13.1 x 8.9 cm
Pictures Collection
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collection held at the Library. The collection of mostly photographs focuses on the development of boxing from the introduction of gloved fighting in 1884 through to the late 1920s. It includes photographs of many Australian boxers and some overseas boxers who fought in Australia, for example this image of the match between Tommy Burns and American Jack Johnson in Sydney in 1908. Read story

July 2008 Volume XVIII Number 10

‘Behold the pilgrims to the shrine of Stoush’

Ian Warden time travels back to a Sydney enthralled and sometimes appalled by the ‘unparalleled Biff’ between Jack Johnson and Tommy Burns at the 1908 World Heavyweight Championship

Raphael Cilento: A Life in Context

Alex Cameron-Smith examines the personal papers of some of the contemporaries of Sir Raphael Cilento, noted pioneer in Australian tropical medicine and public health

From man of the British Empire to proud Australian

Sophie Loy-Wilson tells the story of Victorian Rex Phillips who lived in Shanghai between World Wars I and II and whose attitude towards the British Empire changed as a result

The ascendancy of neoliberal think tanks in Australia

Andrew Thackrah focuses on think tanks to explore the history of neoliberalism in Australia

Rediscovering the location of Victoria’s first colonial garden

E. Rebecca Sanders describes how she located an 1801 garden on Churchill Island and the garden’s role as a first step in the colonisation of Victoria

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