Basketball shorts manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
date: label: date made
content: 1950s-1960s
name: label: retailer
content: Stall and Dean
label: maker
content: Stall & Dean
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Red, wool basketball shorts with gray trim around the sides and bottom. There are three black buttons at the fly and a belt with a silver buckle is attached to the wasitband. There are white pads inside the shorts at the hip area and are held in place by white lacing. This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Manufacturers Company was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest sporting goods companies in the country. It first produced baseball, basketball and football uniforms along with football helmets. They soon expanded to uniforms and equipment for a variety of sports and was the first company to manufacture hockey uniforms and equipment.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Brockton
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Manufacturing
label: name of sport
content: Basketball
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stall & Dean (through Henry N. Jackson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0324.69
label: accession number
content: 1998.0324
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0324.69
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shorts
label: Object Name
content: shorts, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33.5 cm x 41.5 cm; 13 3/16 in x 16 11/32 in