Card for Basketball Olympic Games Honors Table featuring Lusia Harris: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A Basketball Olympic games honors table card featuring Lusia Harris. The cardboard card has a color photograph of Lusia Harris playing basketball. In the image, Lusia is on the court jumping for the ball against her opponent. She has her right arm raised against her opponent’s raised left arm. The basketball hovers in the air over their heads. Lusia Harris wears a sleeveless, bright blue USA uniform jersey and matching shorts with white knee high socks with navy blue and red stripes around the calf and white sneakers. Her opponent wears a white short sleeve jersey with burgundy shorts. They are surrounded by their teammates in matching uniforms. The audience can be seen sitting on bleachers in the background. Across the top margin is a horizontal tan band with black text that reads [BASKETBALL] in the top left hand corner. Under the word are three red interlocking rings inside a white square. In the center of the margin is black text that reads [OLYMPIC GAMES / HONORS TABLES]. The back of the card has a white background with small black text in two columns giving statistics for basketball games the United States had won throughout the 20th century. Across the top margin is black text that reads [BASKETBALL] in the top left hand corner. Under the word are three interlocking rings inside a square. In the center of the margin is black text that reads [OLYMPIC GAMES / HONORS TABLES]. On the proper right side is a black and white illustration of three figures playing basketball.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1979
• Distributed by: International Olympic Committee, Swiss, founded 1894
• Subject of: Lusia Harris-Stewart, American, 1955 - 2022
• Type: sports cards
• Medium: ink on cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W: 6 5/16 × 4 3/4 in. (16 × 12 cm)
• Place depicted: Montreal, Quebec, Canada, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Basketball
• Topic: Olympics
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2017.29.5.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lusia Harris-Stewart
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © International Olympic Committee Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.