The 1953 Black Diamond, Centerville High School, Iowa, yearbook Many photographs of Simon Estes in his 1953 yearbook, showing his activities on track and football sports teams. A relative was a freshman at the time. Estes lived in Centerville, Iowa.
Tama Iowa basketball team has a player from the Meskwaki people
Press photo states “Johnny Bright, the Negro dazzler from Drake who was the Eagles’ first draft choice, will move from his single wing halfback slot to Philadelphia’s T-formation full-back post if he decides to play pro football, according to coach...
close-up photo of Joe Williams, portrait. Text reads “Attn sports editors. release in p.ms’s thursday, Nov. 2 with George Brown’s story from Iowa City on Joe Williams. [indecipherable] 110105–11/1/61-Iowa City, Iowa: Joe Williams, Iowa University halfback, hopes any renown he...
PHOTO SHOWS THE 1919 CHAMPION BASKETBALL TEAM. SOLDIERS FROM THE 357th INFANTRY/90th DIVISION ARMY LEAGUE IN FRANCE —RIGHT ON THE BORDER WITH NAZI GERMANY WRITTEN ON THE BASKETBALL ARE THE CHAMPIONSHIP SPECIFICS. ON THE REVERSE OF THE PICTURE, GRANDPA HAS...
Photo shows the football team in practice position. Back: Postcard has brief message from “Bates” and is addressed to “Mr. Harold (Pape) Shindan, New Sharon, Iowa” and is postmarked “Iowa City”. At the bottom someone has handwritten in pencil, “Nov...
Photo postcard, front image shows five boys, three White, two Black on a railroad track, all laughing as the two Black youths take boxing stances. Written on fron in white is “Sporting Life Colfax, Iowa -25-” Back, in handwritting: “Have...
original, complete circa 1950’s brochure about IOWA COLORED GHOSTS AFRICAN AMERICAN SOFTBALL TEAM PROGRAM. A Black Iowan softball team that staged antics to make the crowd laugh, similar to Harlem globetrotters, but maybe a bit of Jim Crow?
Photo of a football team that seems to be from a high school. The photograph shows one Black player on the team. It has a photographer’s signature impressed at the bottom center of the photo and the words “Ottumwa Iowa”....
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