Grand Initiation of a Boxing Ring

1936-01-26

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Grand Initiation of a Boxing Ring
  • Title
  • Grand Initiation of a Boxing Ring
  • Creator
  • Sissman Studio
  • Identifier
  • MSP78.B001.F12.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP78.B001.F12.I02
  • Description
  • A crowd watches as two boys prepare to square off in a makeshift boxing ring at the Irene Kaufmann Settlement (IKS). The IKS served the immigrant community of Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood with a wide variety of services, including athletic programs. The IKS was originally founded as the Columbian Council School and Settlement in 1895. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kaufmann endowed the IKS in 1909, in memory of their daughter. The IKS merged with the YM&WHA and evolved into the present-day Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The JCC continues the tradition of the IKS in providing programs and services to the nonsectarian local community.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Athletics--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Boxing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs, 1897-1946, MSP 78, Rauh Jewish Archives, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs
  • Rights Information
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