JACK JOHNSON Boxing Champ & Legend Cabinet Card Photo Vintage Fights Heavyweight For Sale

Handmade historical reproduction Cabinet Card of American Legendary Champion Jack Johnson. The photograph is a Fujifilm Archival Quality Matte Print from the original photograph. Each card has a short bio on the reverse which makes it useful as a history teaching tool in addition to interesting, enjoyable and informative art.Mounted on sturdy chipboard the overall card is approx. 4.75” x 7.25”.From the brief Back Bio -John Arthur \"Jack\" Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant was an American boxer, who—at the height of the Jim Crow era—became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). Johnson was faced with much controversy when he was charged with violating the Mann Act in 1912, even though there was an obvious lack of evidence and the charge was called racially based. In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns notes that \"for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth\"…First Class Shipping in US. See Global Shipping Program for International.
The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture from the 1860’s through the early part of the 20th Century.
It consisted of a thin albumen photographic paper print mounted on a card. They are often confused with Carte de Visité (CDV), a similar but smaller format introduced around 1854 in France. CDV’s were very popular during the American Civil War.
“Cabinet Card” portraits were often presented and exchanged by individuals of position, and social standing. They came to often replace the “calling card” as a currency of social exchange and introduction.They were often kept and displayed in glass “cabinets” to demonstrate acquaintance or connection in some way with the notables pictured in the portraits.

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