Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of men running with a football in front of two houses
ca. 1920
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, 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 gelatin silver print of children playing football on a dirt lot next to two houses in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At center left, one boy holds a football while a group of boys run towards the right side of the photograph. Two boys on the left side of the photograph are running towards the photographer. The running boys are slightly out of focus. Several smaller children stand on the sidelines and several other figures can be seen watching from the porch of a house in the background.There are no marks or inscriptions, front or back.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2013.79.4
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