Sale 2443 Lot 341

(FEMALE WRESTLING)
A pair of binders with more than 120 color photographs of female wrestlers apparently from Judell Du Long's pioneering female submission wrestling company California Amazon.
Also with more than 50 homemade laminated cards with reproductions of the female participants, 3 black-and-white photographs, and 5 bout cards, listing the opponents and their weights. In many of the images the women are mid-fight, but others they appear more relaxed or are posed portraits. They are nearly always dressed in bikinis and in several the Amazon signage is visible; about 10 photographs include a male figure (at least one of these from the company Golden Girls). Chromogenic and silver (3) prints, each measuring 4 3/4x3 1/2 inches (12.1x8.9 cm.), and the reverse, inserted into plastic sleeves, some with numbers in the negative, and others with identifying notations (about 4), in ink, the Du Long hand stamp (about 12), or both (about 25), on verso. Tall skinny 4tos, leatherette, lightly worn. 1970s