- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Contract between Ben Stein and Texas Tanner, 1927 Oct. 19
- Creator:
- Stein, Ben
- Date of Original:
- 1927-10-19
- Subject:
- African American boxers--Georgia--Macon
Boxing matches--Georgia--Macon
Boxers--Georgia--Macon
Professional sports contracts--Georgia--Macon
Entertainment events--Georgia--Macon
Boxing--Georgia--Macon
Arenas--Georgia--Macon
Tanner, Texas
Cox, Eddie
Stein, Ben
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- contracts
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Business contract between manager and owner of the Douglass Theatre Ben Stein and boxer Texas Tanner, dated October 19, 1927, establishing the terms of a proposed boxing match at the Douglass Theatre. Tanner agrees to fight Atlanta-based boxer Eddie Cox or another opponent at the Douglass Theatre, and Stein agrees to pay Tanner forty dollars or the privilege of taking a fifty percent share of the gross receipts from the fight. The contract is signed only by Tanner.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2005, as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- dbr006
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr006
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr006
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr006/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Theater Records Series, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. Business Records, 1906-1967, Middle Georgia Archives, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- [1] p.
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 156, document 21.
- Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains handwritten, typewritten, and printed text.]
[printed text:
DOUGLASS THEATRE
OWNED AND OPERATED BY
STEIN ENTERPRISES
355-359 BROADWAY
MACON, GA. [GEORGIA]]
[typewritten text: October 19th 1927
This agreement made in duplicate between Ben Stein party of the first part and Texas Tanner party of the second Part.
Tanner agrees to fight Eddie Cox of Atlanta a ten round Boxing Bout at the Douglass Theater On October 19th or any opponnent [opponent] Said Stein Picks should Cox fail to arrive in time for fight.
For the above said fight Ben Stein Agrees[deleted text: s] to Pay said Texas Tanner the Sum of $40.00 Fourty [Forty] Dollars or the privalege [privilege] of Taking 30% of the Boxes share of the Receipts Namely 50% of the Gross receipts of said Boxing Contest.]
[Signed] [written text: Texas Tanner]