Oxford Mail Archive - Muhammad Ali





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An original vintage press/wire photograph of Muhammad Ali, shown in a lively boxing-adjacent pose with fists raised, wearing a houndstooth-pattern jacket. The print comes from a newspaper picture archive (Oxford Mail) and carries all the hallmarks of a working press photo:
Verso annotations: hand-written caption identifying the subject as "Muhammad Ali," along with a partial second line of text.
Newspaper archive stamps: multiple date-received stamps visible on the back, including 31 Dec 1974, 27 May 1983, 9 May 1992, 1 Jun 1992, and 14 Nov 1994 — indicating the photo was reused/re-filed by the newspaper's picture desk across two decades.
Editorial crop marks: blue pencil/pen crop lines and a diagonal scaling line drawn by a picture editor for print sizing, along with cataloguing notes.
Attached red "Oxford Mail" archive tags/labels, apparently used for cross-referencing the image to a printed article, with handwritten page and size references.
A small newspaper clipping fragment is also adhered to the back.
An original vintage press/wire photograph of Muhammad Ali, shown in a lively boxing-adjacent pose with fists raised, wearing a houndstooth-pattern jacket. The print comes from a newspaper picture archive (Oxford Mail) and carries all the hallmarks of a working press photo:
Verso annotations: hand-written caption identifying the subject as "Muhammad Ali," along with a partial second line of text.
Newspaper archive stamps: multiple date-received stamps visible on the back, including 31 Dec 1974, 27 May 1983, 9 May 1992, 1 Jun 1992, and 14 Nov 1994 — indicating the photo was reused/re-filed by the newspaper's picture desk across two decades.
Editorial crop marks: blue pencil/pen crop lines and a diagonal scaling line drawn by a picture editor for print sizing, along with cataloguing notes.
Attached red "Oxford Mail" archive tags/labels, apparently used for cross-referencing the image to a printed article, with handwritten page and size references.
A small newspaper clipping fragment is also adhered to the back.

