Basketball Shorts worn at Hanover High School
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: wearer
content: Washburn, Wilcomb E.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Green cotton basketball shorts with a white stripe down the side and padding on the hips. According to the donor, these shorts were originally used by the Dartmouth College basketball team in the early 1930s but were turned over to the Hanover High School basketball team of Hanover, New Hampshire in the mid-1930s. The donor wore these at Hanover High until he left for Exeter in 1941 and continued to wear then from 1958-1985 while playing basketball at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Center. Wilcomb Washburn was a curator of Political History at the National Museum of American History beginning in 1958. Later, he became chair of the Department of American Studies and served as a director for the Smithsonian's American Studies Program from 1968-1997.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: New Hampshire, Hanover
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Basketball
label: level of sport
content: High School
label: level of sport
content: collegiate
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Wilcomb E. Washburn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0272.01
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0272.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0272
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shorts, basketball
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14 in x 21 in; 35.56 cm x 53.34 cm