African American Tennis Tournament 1920 Black Sports Howard Harvard Univ Photo

DETAILS: Original gelatin silver photographic postcard (RPPC). Rare photo of an African American collegiate tennis tournament. Writing on front gives details of the event (The Neptune Tennis Club of Steamer Providence, Roger Williams Park). Verso has names and colleges of the players. Harvard and Howard University students appear to have ranked as the top schools with Union and Tennesee Universities also mentioned.

Their are several schools we did not recognize. Measures 3.25" x 5.0" inches. Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper items with a large selection of historical and 19th Century tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cabinet cards, carte des visites and other types of early photography.

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