Comments on: Smithsonian Gets Their Mitts on Gene Tunney’s Gloves http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/03/smithsonian-gets-their-mitts-on-gene-tunney%e2%80%99s-gloves/ A new Smithsonian blog covering scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:34:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Catherine Shteynberg http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/03/smithsonian-gets-their-mitts-on-gene-tunney%e2%80%99s-gloves/comment-page-1/#comment-6078 Catherine Shteynberg Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:00:32 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/?p=17392#comment-6078 This is great! Congrats to American History! Interestingly, Gene Tunney became active in youth work after retiring, and appears in the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Science Service collections, chatting up young students at the Science Service Talent Search in the 1940s. Read more about this in our blog post and check out the YouTube video in the post of Tunney’s famous “Long Count match” with Jack Dempsey: http://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/03/31/finding-the-thousand-words-behind-the-picture/ Catherine Shteynberg Smithsonian Institution Archives This is great! Congrats to American History!

Interestingly, Gene Tunney became active in youth work after retiring, and appears in the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Science Service collections, chatting up young students at the Science Service Talent Search in the 1940s. Read more about this in our blog post and check out the YouTube video in the post of Tunney’s famous “Long Count match” with Jack Dempsey:
http://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/03/31/finding-the-thousand-words-behind-the-picture/

Catherine Shteynberg
Smithsonian Institution Archives

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