Basketball -- United States -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 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
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
Men’s College Basketball Conference Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKC 530
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of media guides for college basketball conferences. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, statistics, schedules, and information about the conference teams and their players, coaches, and other personnel. The guides also usually contain administrative information about the conference, its constituent colleges/universities, historical data about the conference and other information for members of the media. The media guides tend to become larger,...
Dates:
1950-2003
Men’s College Basketball Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKC 540
Scope and Contents
This collection contains men’s college basketball media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. School typically published media guides on an annual basis prior to each college basketball season. The guides generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes...
Dates:
1938-2013