Advertising print manufactured by the Stall and Dean Sporting Goods Company
date: label: date made
content: ca 1918
label: date made
content: 1918
name: label: retailer
content: Stall & Dean
label: maker
content: Stall & Dean
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Promotional poster is a paper color print featuring the image of a doughboy carrying a pistol and a football player in a leather helmet. "Ralph Heard, '18." Poem reads 'THE GAME/ It's the same old game with a different name/ Tho's the score runs a good bit higher/ And the teams have grown to a size unknown/ with God as the Great Umpire." Tolman Print, Inc. Brockton, MA. Advertises Stall & Dean "Yank" Golf Balls.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This object was acquired from the Stall and Dean Company of Brockton, Massachusetts as an example of its catalog merchandise and was never used. 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: name of sport
content: Football
label: Subject
content: World War I
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Manufacturing
label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Stall & Dean (through Henry N. Jackson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0324.44
label: accession number
content: 1998.0324
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0324.44
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: print, football
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 11 in; 35.56 cm x 27.94 cm