The great bloomer prize fight for the champion's belt.
Depiction of two women in bloomers and suggestive tops who have just been in a boxing match. The woman on the left is standing facing right, ready with her fists out; her trainer is behind her on one knee, excitedly holding out a belt to her. The other woman is at the right of the image, dejectedly sitting on her trainer's knee with her face in her hands. In the background, spectators can be seen.; Engraved under title: "Bloomer: Come, set up the pins, what can't come to time, hurra for our side, wher's Tom Hyer, here give me the belt. I don't like to brag but I flatter myself. I kin lamm any little Bloomer gall [sic] of my weight and size in this ward, where's Tommy Hyer."; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851, by J. L. Magee, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y."
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