Contestant in boxing matches
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@ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library
United States. Army. Signal Corps
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Caption on back: "Private First Class Marshall Pratt of 348 Lenox Avenue, New York City, tips the scales at 170 to quality for the light heavyweight bouts of the Continental Base Section's boxing matches; The bouts held in the Kurhaus Theater, Bad Nauheim, Germany, were sponsored by the Special Services Section of the CBS, 1-10-47.
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
1947 01 10
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- African American Soldiers
- African Americans
- Armed Forces
- Boxers (Sports)
- Boxing
- Germany
- United States
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