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Photograph of unidentified Cosmopolitan Tennis Club members

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 featuring two unidentified men on the courts of the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club. The men are standing behind a net shaking hands. The man to the right of the photograph wears a long-sleeve sweater with stripes. The other man, on the left, wears a short-sleeve polo shirt and holds a racquet in his proper left hand. Wood planks adhered to a tall chain-link fence are behind her at the end of the court. Trees and brick buildings are visible in the background. The back of the photograph has a stamp in black ink that reads: [953E] and an inscription identifying the photograph's location.

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Catalog reference: 2015.205.2

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