Group portrait showing Wesley Williams (kneeing at left) with fellow members of the 1919-1920 AMA Basketball Team
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Title
Group portrait showing Wesley Williams (kneeing at left) with fellow members of the 1919-1920 AMA Basketball Team
Collection
Wesley Williams photograph collection
Personal photographs
Names
Martin Gordon Inc. (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1919 (Approximate)
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Wesley A. Williams Collection
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Wesley A. Williams Collection / Box 3
Subjects
Williams, Wesley A., 1896-1984
African American fire fighters
African American basketball players
Basketball teams
Genres
Notes
Content: Handwritten caption on verso: Back row L to R - Samuel Nichols, Jim Boone, John Yates, Hy [Mont], Bill Mitchell, Leon Spady; Middle row L to R - Wesley Williams, Clarence Nance, Hackey Rhone, Lloyd Gainer, Lester Fiall; Foreground - Curtis Jones
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 26 x 31 cm ; balck and white, mounted
Print is mounted, edges are worn.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14983863
Photo Order: 58446
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6bb987e0-7169-0135-f397-757c932f514c
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1919
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MLA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Group portrait showing Wesley Williams (kneeing at left) with fellow members of the 1919-1920 AMA Basketball Team" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1919. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6bb987e0-7169-0135-f397-757c932f514c
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1919). Group portrait showing Wesley Williams (kneeing at left) with fellow members of the 1919-1920 AMA Basketball Team Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6bb987e0-7169-0135-f397-757c932f514c
Chicago/Turabian Format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Group portrait showing Wesley Williams (kneeing at left) with fellow members of the 1919-1920 AMA Basketball Team" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6bb987e0-7169-0135-f397-757c932f514c
Wikipedia citation
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