Color photograph of Violet Knockout of the Gotham City Rollergirls, 2009
date: label: date made
content: 2009
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color photograph of Violet Knockout of the Gotham City Rollergirls, 2009 taken by Andreanna Seymore the official photographer for USA Roller Derby at the First World Cup in Toronto, Canada, 2011. Seymore is a freelance photographer who joined the Hellions of Troy in 2008 and became a member of the close knit, roller derby community.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Roller Derby
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3110.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3110
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3110.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph, roller derby
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 19 in; 33.02 cm x 48.26 cm