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| Creator: | Palumbo, Fred |
| Title: | [Wilt Chamberlain, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, 1959] |
| Date: | 1959 |
| 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. 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. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Chamberlain, Wilt, 1936-1999 | 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 | New York (N.Y.) |
| Collection: | African American Odyssey |
| Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Contributors: | Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | African-American Odyssey Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Online Publisher: | Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress |
| Original Material: | Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. b&w film neg.); (digital file from original negative) |
| Related Materials: | Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0829001r.jpg |
