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| Date: | 12 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal sports editor Henry J. McCormick (left) accepts $150 cash from wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral for the paper's Empty Stock... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Madison wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral donating to a fund established for the welfare and education of the 3-month-old son of an Air Force p... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "First Lesson in Wrestling, Camp Highlands, on Plum Lake, Sayner, Wisconsin." A teacher begins a class in wrestling with a group of st... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | After lunch, a "wrestling match" breaks out between Tom Brew and another scout while Gene Maddrell and Greg Bruhn shout encouragement. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poster for wrestling event at the S.S. Armory featuring Magy vs. Ackley, Stone vs. Smith, Dennis vs. Hessel, Ramsey vs. Hooper and Lorenzo vs. Anderson. Ev... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poster for wrestling event at Muskego across from Muskego Beach featuring Hessel vs. Reinhardt, Dennis vs. Freeman, Shadock vs. Masked Unknown and Ackley v... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poster for wrestling event at Muskego Beach featuring Reinhardt vs. Smith, Gacek vs. Ackley, Metropolis vs. Cherney, Haritay vs. Nagurski and White vs. Hes... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poster for wrestling event at Bohemian Hall featuring Strahota vs. Ostreich, Ackley vs. Gaza, Novak vs. Hauser and Wagner vs. Pfister. Event is May 11 at 8... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poster for a wrestling event at Manitowoc Terrace Gardens, featuring Strahota vs. Gaza, Marko vs. Ackley, Miller vs. Pahl, Zarnath vs. Bucher. Monday eveni... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Poster for wrestling event at Ben Heil's Muskego across from Muskego Beach featuring Masked Marvel vs. Lorenzo, Gacek vs. Ackley, Dennis vs Ewert, Freeman ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1959 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of state high school wrestling champions. |
| Date: | 02 07 1959 |
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| Description: | One of 12 individual portraits of wrestlers, including Tom Doris of East High School. |
| Date: | 04 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men smelt wrestling at the Smelt Carnival in Marinette. |
| Date: | 03 14 1981 |
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| Description: | Onlookers watch as participants flail around in a mud pit wrestling ring. One spectator wears a bird costume. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Local wrestler "Jimmy" Demetral poses flexing his muscles in front of a painting of himself. |
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| Description: | Cigarette advertising card produces by Allen and Ginters. Depicted is William Muldoon, wrestler. Muldoon learned how to wrestle in the Civil War camps of t... |
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| Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Allen and Ginter. Depicted is Edwin Bibby, a wrestler. |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Portrait of East High School wrestler, Billy Gorman, shown standing in a beginning wrestling pose and wearing wrestling clothes. Billy Gorman was 103 pound... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Two wrestlers grapple down on the mat as a referee looks on. An audience sits on the floor or stands in the background. |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Three smiling men are posing in a pretend boxing stance at the Park Hotel. On the right is former world heavy weight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey. On the ... |
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