Photomechanical print of Jackie Robinson on Brooklyn Dodgers opening day in 1947

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A photomechanical print of Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. Robinson is leaping into the air above a base, glove on hand. His signature is across the center. The back of the photograph has an inscription identifying the subject of the photograph [Robinson], a second inscription [Died 1972], and three pieces of tape on the top and left and right edges.

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