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Color photograph of Willie O'Ree and Ice Hockey in Harlem players

after 1987

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.

Color photograph used by Ice Hockey in Harlem. The landscape-oriented photograph features Willie O’Ree and three young boys sitting on a silver colored metal bench. Willie O’Ree is the second person in from the proper left side. He is wearing a dark colored shirt, a black zip-up jacket with a logo on the left shoulder, dark pants, and a white baseball cap with several logos on the front. He is smiling with his mouth open and the top of a hockey stick can be seen leaning against his proper left leg. The boy on the far proper right side is wearing a blue, red, and white hockey jersey. It reads [ICE HOCKEY] in red letters with a white outline. Below, it reads [IN Ha-l--] in white. The other letters in “Harlem” cannot be seen due to the folds in the jersey.

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Catalog reference: 2019.74.3

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