- Collection:
- African American Odyssey
- Title:
- [Wilt Chamberlain, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, 1959]
- Creator:
- Palumbo, Fred
- Date of Original:
- 1959
- Subject:
- African American athletes--New York (State)--New York
African American basketball players--New York (State)--New York
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Harlem Globetrotters
Professional sports--New York (State)--New York - People:
- Chamberlain, Wilt, 1936-1999
- Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Black-and-white photograph of basketball star Wilt Chamberlain, member of the Harlem Globetrotters team, taken in 1959. He left the Globetrotters later that year to join the Philadelphia Warriors.
Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_afamodyssey_0829001r
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0829001r.jpg
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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[Wilt Chamberlain, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, 1959]
