CASSIUS CLAY. PROBABLY THE VERY FIRST COLLECTOR'S PICTURE OF AMERICAN BOXER CASSIUS CLAY AS AN 18-YEAR-OLD AFTER WINNING OLYMPIC GOLD AT THE 1960 ROME OLYMPICS IN THE HOME JOURNAL'S COLLECTOR'S ALBUM.

Cassius Clay, American boxer (later Muhammad Ali), (1942-2016). Collectible picture from Hemmets Journal's 1960 collector's album when the young boxer won Olympic gold in light heavyweight at the Olympics in Rome. Possibly the first ever collector's picture of the 18-year-old boxer. The picture has number 23 in a complete red plastic album with a total of 73 photos of sports legends: Ingemar Johansson, Nils Liedholm, Nacka Skoglund, Herbert Dahlbom, Dan Waern Floyd Patterson and others. in. The image measures 70 mm. x. 45 mm. + white margins. Holed, etc., so that it can be put in the album without affecting the portraits. Printed text on the back. The collectible images were distributed with four depicted people at a time. The image of Cassius Clay sits alongside pedestrian John Ljunggren, sprinter Wilma Rudolph and Danish footballer Harald Nielsen.
About Cassius Clay, it says on the back that he does not intend to become a professional boxer, but that he wants to enter university to study to become an advertising cartoonist.