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BIOGRAPHY
Sports

Princess Ademiluyi

2006–

Princess Ademiluyi (Yoruba: [àdèmílújì]; born 14 July 2006) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League 2 club Ipswich Town, on loan from Gotham FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), and the England…

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Sports

Princewill Ehibhatiomhan

2005–

Princewill Omonefe Ehibhatiomhan (born 20 October 2005) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Southampton.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Print of a man in a baseball uniform standing on the sidewalk

1919-1925; printed 2012

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A digital print of a man posing in a baseball uniform in Lincoln, Nebraska. The man stands on a sidewalk in front of a house and yard. He wears a dark colored baseball uniform with white piping and [GILLENS] printed across the chest. He has a catcher's…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.56.2.44
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Photographs and Still Images

Print of the Men's 400M Hurdles medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics

September 2, 1960

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A reproduced black and white image of Clifton Cushman, Glenn Davis, and Dick Howard on the medals podium after receiving their medals for the 400 Meter Men's Hurdles finals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Cushman (silver) stands on the far left and…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.140.6.1
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Tools and Equipment

Printing plate from the Detroit Free Press depicting Joe Louis

1981

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A printing plate from the first page of Detroit Free Press Section E for April 13, 1981. The plate is dominated by an image of Joe Louis on a boxing stance with the caption ['And still / heavyweight / champion of / the world']. The top of the plate is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.16.1
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Sports

Prisca Awiti Alcaraz

1996–

Prisca Guadalupe Awiti Alcaraz (born 20 February 1996) is a judoka. Born and raised in England, she represented Mexico at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal, becoming the first Mexican athlete to win an Olympic medal in judo.

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Prison issue baseball cap with black panther drawing worn by Herman Wallace

after 1972

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An off-white prison-issue baseball cap worn by Herman Wallace while incarcerated at Angola Prison. The cap is personalized with a hand-drawn black panther on the right side of its bill. The plastic adjustment strap on the back of the cap bears the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2018.36.1.2
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for a Booker T. Washington High School football game

December 1, 1934

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An official program for a football game between Attucks High School in Indianapolis, IN and Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, OK at Skelly Stadium in Tulsa. The program is printed in black ink on a single sheet of orange paper, folded to make four…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.79.16ab
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for a boxing match between Jimmy Ellis and Joe Frazier

1975

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A twenty page program for the March 2, 1975 boxing match between Jimmy Ellis and Joe Frazier in St. Kilda, Australia. The cover features a color image of Joe Frazier and Jimmy Ellis boxing. White and yellow type on front cover reads: [SHOWDOWN / AT ST.…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.7.4
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for a boxing match between Joe Frazier and George Foreman

1973

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A thirty-two page program for a boxing match between Joe Frazier and George Foreman. The front cover features stylized images of George Forman and Joe Frazier's faces. Black and gold type on front of program reads: [THE SUNSHINE SHOWDOWN / JOE / FRAZIER /…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.7.3
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for a boxing match between Ron Stander and Joe Frazier

1972

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A twenty-four page program for a boxing match between Ron Stander and Joe Frazier. The cover features two blue silhouettes of boxers set against a tan background featuring illustrations of observers. Pictures of Frazier and Stander appear in between the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.7.2
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for a college football game between Wilberforce and Tuskegee, 1944

October 20, 1944

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1944 college football program for the all-Black teams from Wilberforce and Tuskegee at the University of Detroit Stadium. The program is red and green with a graphic of a football player mid-run with a football in his left hand plowing his way through an…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.31.5
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MUSEUM OBJECT
souvenirs

Program for boxing match between Tony Doyle and Joe Frazier

1967

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A fifteen page program for the October 17, 1967 boxing match between Tony Doyle and Joe Frazier at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The cover features an illustration of an African American boxer punching a white boxer. A black and white…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.89.7.1
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for Grambling State University Commemorative Football Game

November 15, 1997

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A Grambling State University Special Commemorative Football Game Souvenir Program celebrating head coach Eddie Robinson. At center of the front cover is the Grambling State University seal surrounded by 12 photographic images of Eddie Robinson, arranged in…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2017.4
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for Grambling Vs. Morgan State Invitational Football Classic

1968

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The program cover is black with orange and white text that reads “GRAMBLING / Vs. MORGAN / State / Invitational / Football Classic / YANKEE STADIUM / SEPT. 28 1968 / 2 PM.” Below the text is a silhouette of a football helmet in orange with black letters on…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.183.6
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for the interment services for Joe Louis

April 21, 1981

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A program from the interment services for Joe Louis. The program is printed in brown ink on tan paper. The front page features a bust portrait of Joe Lewis wearing a suit jacket, dress shirt, and neck tie. Text above and below the image reads [Internment…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.46.25.5
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program for World Heavyweight Championship, Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay

February 25, 1964

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Official souvenir program of the World Heavyweight Championship of Sonny Liston versus Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali). Paper program has a white cover with images in blue and white, and text in red and blue. The program cover features a stylized boxing ring…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.173.5
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Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other

Program from the first Los Angeles Rams home game

September 6, 1946

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Game program for football match between the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins. Front cover of program features a color illustration of a man in a football uniform carrying a football. Man is wearing an orange jersey with the number "32". Black…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.297.2
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Promise Omochere

2000–

Promise Osazee Omochere (born 18 October 2000) is an Irish professional football player who plays as a forward for National League club Southend United, on loan from EFL League Two club Bristol Rovers.

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Sports

Pumpsie Green

1933–2019

Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green (October 27, 1933 – July 17, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played with the Boston Red Sox (1959–62) and New York Mets (1963).

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MUSEUM OBJECT
Clothing - Fashion and Historical

Purple Atlanta Braves baseball cap owned by Big Boi

2013

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A limited release design New Era Cap Company fitted baseball cap with the Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves logo owned by Big Boi. The cap is purple with a rainbow-colored embroidered "A" at the center front crown, matching the album cover for Big Boi's…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.121.3
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Tools and Equipment

Putter golf club used by Ethel Funches- Putter

late 20th century

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A putter used by Ethel Funches. The black rubber grip is textured and has some cracks on it. The top half of the grip is torn off and the metal underneath is gold in color. The top of the club is open and hollow. The shaft of the club is metal and is…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2015.249.4.12
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Qadry Ismail

1970–

Qadry Rahmadan Ismail (born November 8, 1970), nicknamed "the Missile", is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Syracuse Orange, earning first-team…

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