WBL promotional pamphlet owned by Elizabeth Galloway McQuitter

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Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL) promotional pamphlet owned by Elizabeth Galloway McQuitter of the Chicago Hustle. The cover features the WBL logo at top in blue and orange. Below the logo are four photographs printed in blue and white capturing various players during basketball games. The top image stretches across the full cover and shows a player for the New York Stars jumping, arms outstretched, holding a basketball while a player from the Chicago Hustle attempts to block. The basketball and the players’ hands extend past the edge of the photograph background to be silhouetted next to the logo. Underneath this image is a row with the other three photographs. The images at both left and right also depict a game between the New York Stars and Chicago Hustle. The interior of the pamphlet fourteen pages of information and images about the league and the people who helped establish it.

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