Photographs relating to Louisville world heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali, also know as Cassius Clay. The photographs include various action shots of Ali competing against other renowned boxers for the world title. Ali's wives, Veronica Porsche and Belinda Boyd, and daughter Hannah/Hana? also frequently feature. Several culturally significant images include Ali talking a distraught 21 year old off a ledge in Los Angeles, Ali announcing his boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, Ali in talks with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and the Kremlin; and Ali obtaining the release of 16 hostages from Iraq, one of which, Harry Brill-Edwards, is depicted giving his thanks. Other figures identified in the photographs include President Carter; John Crvarich; Richard Green; Tom Jones; Larry Holmes; George Foreman; Floyd Patterson; Duke Durden; Sonny Liston; Bundini Brown; Antonio Inoki; Earnie Shavers; Chuck Wepner; Leon Spinks; Beverly Leonard; Zora Folley; John LoBianco; Jerry Quarry; Shelley Obermuller; Oscar Bonavena; Doug Jones; Ken Norton; Brian London; Joe Frazier; Henry Cooper; Ernie Terrell; Marcus Lipton; and Rocky Marciano.