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Basketball

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

African American Comedy Exhibition Basketball Teams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP 671
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of programs and other printed material related to touring African American exhibition comedy basketball teams that focused on showmanship, theatrics, and entertainment. The programs range from the 1950s through the 1980s and typically contain pictures, statistics, and biographies about players, coaches, and other team personnel in addition to team histories, other stories, and advertisements. Teams represented in the collection include the Harlem Clowns, the...
Dates: 1955-1984

College Winter Sports Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GEN 541
Scope and Contents This collection contains winter sports media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Earlier guides cover only men’s sports, by the 1970s and 1980 most guides include both men’s and women’s sports. The guides tend to emphasize basketball and/or ice hockey. But winter sports media guides also include information about other traditional winter sports, including wrestling, track and field, swimming and diving, and sometimes gymnastics, fencing,...
Dates: 1947-1999; Majority of material found in 1950-1976

Harlem Globetrotters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates: 1941-1976

Haynes, Marques, 1926-2015

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1926-03-10 - 2015-05-22

Tatum, Reece., 1921-1967

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1921-05-31 - 1967-01-18

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, 1911-1956

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1911-06-26 - 1956-09-27