WBL promotional pamphlet owned by Elizabeth Galloway McQuitter: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Women’s Professional Basketball League (WBL) promotional pamphlet owned by Elizabeth Galloway McQuitter of the Chicago Hustle. The cover features the WBL logo at top in blue and orange. Below the logo are four photographs printed in blue and white capturing various players during basketball games. The top image stretches across the full cover and shows a player for the New York Stars jumping, arms outstretched, holding a basketball while a player from the Chicago Hustle attempts to block. The basketball and the players’ hands extend past the edge of the photograph background to be silhouetted next to the logo. Underneath this image is a row with the other three photographs. The images at both left and right also depict a game between the New York Stars and Chicago Hustle. The interior of the pamphlet fourteen pages of information and images about the league and the people who helped establish it. The back of the pamphlet features the league logo and the logos of each team along with league contact information printed in blue ink.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1978-1981
• Published by: Women's Professional Basketball League, American, 1978 - 1981
• Subject of: Elizabeth Galloway McQuitter, American, born 1955
• Subject of: Chicago Hustle, American, 1978 - 1981
• Type: pamphlets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
• Place used: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Basketball
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2024.17.3
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Elizabeth Galloway McQuitter, on behalf of Legends of the Ball, Inc. and the WBL
• 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: © Legends of the Ball, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.