Albert Davis was a theater and sports enthusiast and an avid collector of theater and sports-related memorabilia. At the time of his death, his collection contained 100,000 photographs.  This collection contains the sports photography portion of his collection and includes photographs and cabinet cards of such boxing and wrestling legends as John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson, William Muldoon, James Corbett, Primo Carnera, and many others, as well as images of baseball, wrestling, swimming, cycling, and golf.  To highlight this collection, we have created an online exhibit featuring several well-known and some not-so-well-known athletes.

• Albert Davis Photography Collection, 1850-1937, undated
  

Bike racers at the Hartford Wheel Club’s bicycle tournament

by Ryan Blake

The bicycle racers posing for this 1889 photograph in Stamford, Connecticut, at the height of the national craze for bicycle...

Boxing Photos from the Albert Davis Sport and Photography Collection

This exhibit showcases thirty-six different boxers in over one hundred photos from the Albert Davis photo collection.