Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of unidentified child at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club
ca. 1945
Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black and white photograph of unidentified child and trophies. The photograph features a table decorated with a table cloth with several trophies of varying sizes on it. An unidentified child stands in front of the crowd holding a tennis ball. A crowd of unidentified people sit in folding chairs facing the trophy table. They are located on the tennis courts at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. A large fence with wood planks adhered to it surrounds the courts. Buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph has a stamp in black ink that reads: [953E] and an inscription describing the photograph's subject.
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2015.205.17
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