Sale 2536 | Lot 324

(WOMEN--FIGHTING)
A group of approximately 58 female boxing and wrestling photographs attributed to Bernard Kobel.
This group including posed and candid shots of scantily-clad women boxing in the ring with an audience (and sometimes a coach) or en plein air; also with a series that appears to show mudwrestling (approximately 17). Silver and silver copy prints, the images measuring 6¼x4½ inches (15.9x11.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 7x5 inches (17.8x12.7 cm.), two measuring 4¼x3½ inches (10.8x8.9 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, many with letter or numeric hand stamps and/or notations, in pencil, and four with the subjects identified, in ink, on verso. 1940s-50s

[600/900]

Kobel (1906-1985) placed advertisements for photographs of oddities, tattooed people, and other under-the-radar imagery in magazines, operating the mail order business through his studios in Clearwater, Florida and Frankfort, Indiana from the 1920s-50s