Advertisement tag for the Homestead Grays vs. New York Cubans baseball game: Museum Object and Cultural History
Advertisement tag for the Homestead Grays vs. New York Cubans baseball game: Date: 1930s - 1940s. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Homestead Grays, American, 1912 - 1950.
The object in the museum catalogue
A thin stock cardboard tag advertising a game played between the Homestead Grays and the New York Cubans at Glenwood Park in Kane, Pennsylvania. The tag consists of black printed ink on orange paper. An eyelet for hanging is at the center of the top.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1930s - 1940s
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Homestead Grays, American, 1912 - 1950
- Subject of: New York Cubans, American, 1935 - 1950
- Type: tags
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions: H x W: 5 15/16 x 2 1/2 in. (15.1 x 6.4 cm)
- Place used: Kane, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Baseball
- Topic: Segregation
- Topic: Sports
- Object number: 2010.44.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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