Broadside advertising a game between the Athletics and Zulu Cannibal Giants: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A broadside advertising a baseball game between the Georgetown Athletics and the original Zulu Cannibal Giants. The broadside has black ink on beige paper. Text at the top reads: [Baseball / Athletics / VS. / The Original / Zulu Cannibal Giants]. The center of the broadside has a cartoon that depicts the stereotypically caricatured players from the Zulu Cannibal Giants crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Africa with bats shaped like clubs. Line-ups for the teams are printed on either side of the cartoon. Text at the bottom reads: [Sunday, June 22nd / Moss Park / Georgetown, Kentucky / Game Called 3 P.M. Admission: 60¢ (Incl. Tax)]. The back of the document is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1934-1937
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Zulu Cannibal Giants, American, 1934 - 1937
• Subject of: Georgetown Athletics, American
• Owned by: Syd Pollock, American, 1901 - 1968
• Type: broadsides
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 12 × 9 in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Baseball
• Topic: Minstrel (Music)
• Topic: Segregation
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Stereotypes
• Object number: 2016.84
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Mr. Troy Kinunen
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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