Card for Basketball Olympic Games Honors Table featuring Lusia Harris

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A Basketball Olympic games honors table card featuring Lusia Harris. The cardboard card has a color photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball. In the image, Lusia is on the court jumping for the ball against her opponent. She has her right arm raised against her opponent’s raised left arm. The basketball hovers in the air over their heads. Lusia Harris wears a sleeveless, bright blue USA uniform jersey and matching shorts with white knee high socks with navy blue and red stripes around the calf and white sneakers. Her opponent wears a white short sleeve jersey with burgundy shorts. They are surrounded by their teammates in matching uniforms. The audience can be seen sitting on bleachers in the background. Across the top margin is a horizontal tan band with black text that reads [BASKETBALL] in the top left hand corner. Under the word are three red interlocking rings inside a white square.

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