Detail
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Date: 1925-04-03
Medium: gelatin silver print with retouching and editing marks
Accession Number: NYT-89-1002
Inscriptions:
Recto [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 5839 [boxed]; stamped: [STOCK] [illeg.] / APR 28 1925 / NEW YORK TIMES; stamped and handwritten: [circled] 983 / P5-C; stamped: APR 12 1925; stamped: JUN 29 1979 [struck through]; handwritten: [circled] 10-00 / [illeg.]; stamped: P A 8. 325. [illeg.]; handwritten: 4 3/8 x 6 1/16; handwritten: 7173 [boxed and struck through]; stamped: PHOTO BY / PACIFIC & ATLANTIC PHOTOS, Inc. / 25 PARK PLACE, NEW YORK CITY / PLEASE CREDIT "P. & A. PHOTO." / THIS PICTURE IS SOLD TO YOU FOR YOUR / PUBLICATION ONLY AND MUST NOT BE LOANED / SYNDICATED OR USED FOR ADVERTISING [illeg.] / WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM US.; handwritten: 4533 [boxed and struck through]; printed: [adhered with paste] "THE FATHER OF BASKETBALL," DR. JAMES MAISMITH, / of the Faculty of the University of Kansas, / Gives His Son, Hames Jr., / a Few Points About the / Game. / (P. & A.); typed: [adhered to verso, caption overlapping on recto] WATCH YOUR CREDIT / 83258 "P & A PHOTOS" EXCLUSIVE / (PHOTO SHOWS DR. JAMES NAISMITH AND SON / JAMES JR., WHO HE IS TEACHING POINTS OF / GAME OF BASKETBALL HE INVENTED YEARS AGO) / "FATHER OF BASKETBALL" [circled] GIVES HIS SON A LESSON / DR. JAMES NAISMITH, [circled] MEMBER OF THE UNIVER- / SITY OF KANSAS FACULTY, KNOWN AS THE "FATHER / OF BASKETXBALL," [sic] IS SHOWN GIVING HIS SON / JAMES JR., A FEW POINTS ABOUT THE GAME, AT / LAWRENCE, KANSAS. DR. NAISMITH INVENTED THE / GAME WHILE A STUDENT AT THE SPRINGFIELD, / MASS., Y.M.C.A. COLLEGE, IN XXX 1892. / N 4-3-25
