Sports - Boxing
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Karpman, Unknown
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
This account details the life of Charles Karpman, starting from his childhood in a shtetl called Narovlya, Russia. He discusses Jewish life as well as daily life of a child in Russia.The family immigrated in 1916(?) when he was five through the east through Japan, then Seattle, then eventually to Hartford where his father and other family members had settled. This route was taken because passage west was blocked due to World War I.The milkman gave the Karpmans English...
Dates:
Unknown
Leibert, Manny, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Folder contents
Folder 1 contains: News clippngs relating to Leibert's boxing career; news clippings relating to Hartford naming street after Leibert; photocopies of news clippings; photocopies of news clippings relating Leibert's volunteer work; Typed news release from the Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation relating events of Volunteer Recognistion Evening; photocopy of typed bulletted biography of Leibert; photocopy of cardboard-mounted clipping from The Sporting Vista; aforesaid clipping; news...
Dates:
undated
Louis "Kid" Kaplan
Collection
Identifier: 0012-003-016h
Scope and Contents
Collection Contents by Folder:
Photographs:
See: Photographs/Sports/Boxing/Kaplan, Louis "Kid"
Includes photos of Al Jolson and Sally Rand inscribed to Kaplan.
Scrapbooks: in Aisle 12, bottom shelves
:
Scrapbook of news clippings, 1922-1941 [largest scrapbook]
Scrapbook of news clippings, 1922-1960
Scrapbook of news clippings, 1922-1970 [smallest scrapbook]
Dates:
1901 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1922 - 1960
Rosenfeld, Natalie, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 6
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: teaching profession; difference between German and Russian Jews; family's lack of religious observance; small businesses including jewelry and real estate; commuynity leadership activities; early life in hartford; lack of anti-semitism; athletics including horse-riding and boxing.
Dates:
undated