Museum object · Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
Embroidered patch for Ice Hockey in Harlem
after 1987
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.
Ice Hockey in Harlem embroidered patch. The circular patch is white with a blue border. There is an embroidered image of a cityscape in black thread with white windows. There is a red, black, and white embroidered image of a hockey player in the center of the cityscape. He has a black face mask, gloves, and skates, with a red and white uniform. His legs are angled towards the proper right side of the patch with a spray of ice at the bottom. He is holding a black hockey stick on the proper left side. There are blue embroidered block letters under the image which read [ICE HOCKEY]. The text below is made out of red thread. It reads [IN] in small, thin text and [Harlem] in a bigger script font. The back of the patch has a clear plastic on it and the reverse of the thread design on the front can be seen.
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Catalog reference: 2019.74.2
