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Photograph of unidentified child at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club

ca. 1945

Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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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 photograph of unidentified child and trophies. The photograph features a table decorated with a table cloth with several trophies of varying sizes on it. An unidentified child stands in front of the crowd holding a tennis ball. A crowd of unidentified people sit in folding chairs facing the trophy table. They are located on the tennis courts at the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. A large fence with wood planks adhered to it surrounds the courts. Buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph has a stamp in black ink that reads: [953E] and an inscription describing the photograph's subject.

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Catalog reference: 2015.205.17

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