94/63/1-59/4 Glass negative, quarter plate, portrait of Brother Jonathan, Tom Lennon, Sydney, Australia, 9 October 1938

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Glass plate negative portrait of wrestler Brother Jonathan, 1938

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Glass negative, quarter plate, portrait of Brother Jonathan, Tom Lennon, Sydney, Australia, 9 October 1938

This head-and-shoulders portrait of a bare-chested bearded man was stored in a box labelled "Brother Jonathan 9/10/38'. He is probably the 1930s American professional wrestler Brother Jonathan (Jonathan Delaun Heaton) who was also a Mormon preacher. He was known as the "Salt Lake rattlesnake". New York wrestling journalist and photographer Earle F. Yetter described Heaton as the "hymn-singing, psalm-shouting Brother Jonathan, who tossed opponents from pillar to post while in the midst of a Bible quotation." Heaton died 21 September 1987, aged 83.

Photographed: Lennon, Tom; Sydney; 1938

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Box lid is inscribed in pencil on one edge 'Brother Jonathan / 9/10/38'.

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94/63/1-59/4

Production date

1938

Height

81 mm

Width

105 mm

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Tom Lennon Photographic Collection

This object record is currently incomplete. The information available may date back as far as 125 years. Other information may exist in a non-digital form. The Museum continues to update and add new research to collection records.

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