- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Falkener, Herschel Hall, American, 1901 - 1992
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Shaw University, American, founded 1865
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Medium
- photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 2 11/16 × 4 1/8 in. (6.8 × 10.4 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of fourteen men playing football at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. One of the players is Herschel H. Falkener. The football players are all wearing the same uniforms: dark shirts, light pants, dark knee-length socks over the pants and medium dark, leather helmets with earflaps. Five spectators are watching the game in the background and a man wearing a white shirt and black pants is in the foreground. There are no inscriptions or marks, front or back.
- Place depicted
- Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Athletes
- Education
- Football
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Men
- Photography
- Sports
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Margaret Falkener DeLorme, Waldo C. Falkener, Cameron S. Falkener and Gilbert E. DeLorme
- Object number
- 2014.94.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.