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The Salt Lake Tribune occasionally presents images from its archives in a special series called A Look Back. Today we feature historic photos of former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey, who lived in Salt Lake City for a time and fought at least 19 times in Utah.
Every gallery of the series is available at http://www.sltrib.com/topics/lookback. Previous installments showed:
Utah's WWII Candy Bomber
Salt Lake City's trolley system
Utah's small towns
Utahns in the military from the '40s and '50s
Salt Lake City's baseball park in the 1930s and 1940s
Salt Lake City's Memory Grove Park
Women's fashion from 1949-50
The centennial Days of '47 parade in downtown Salt Lake City from July 1947
Salt Lake City's Liberty Park from 1935 to 1951
People and events in Salt Lake City from the 1930s, '40s and '50s