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Founded in 1987, Ice Hockey in Harlem is a non-profit organization that gives roughly 250 children between the ages of 5 to 18 the opportunity to learn the game of ice hockey and participate in academic enrichment programs free of charge. Most of the program’s participants, who must be residents of Harlem or Upper Manhattan, are black and Hispanic. Ice Hockey in Harlem is one of several programs across the country, including the Fort Dupont program in Washington D.C., the Snider Hockey program in Philadelphia, and the Detroit Ice Dreams, focused on increasing black and minority participation in ice hockey.

Color photograph used by Ice Hockey in Harlem.
The landscape-oriented photograph features a hockey team and their coach. They are standing outside on the ice with flag poles, buildings, and trees in the background. The coach is standing in the center in the back of the group. He is wearing a black jacket with a logo, black pants, black ice skates, and a white baseball cap. There are seven (7) team members standing in the back, four on the proper right side of the coach and three on the proper left side. The boy on the far proper right side is wearing a white jersey with ped and blue details, black shorts, black and yellow gloves and socks and black skates. His proper left elbow is resting on the shoulder of a boy with a red, black, white, and yellow jersey with red shorts, black and white socks and skates, and red, black, and white gloves. He is holding on to a black and white hockey stick. There is a boy in a white, red, and blue jersey standing behind him. Only the sleeve of the jersey can be seen. There is a boy wearing a red, black, white, and yellow jersey with black and white gloves to his proper left side. His is holding on to a black hockey stick.
On the proper left side of the coach there is a boy in a black, red, and white jersey with black clovers and a black and white hockey stick. The boy to his proper left is wearing a red, black, white, and yellow jersey. The boy on the far proper left side is wearing a white, blue, and red jersey with black gloves and a tan, black, and white hockey stick. He is also wearing glasses. The four boys in the front are kneeling on the ice. They are all wearing red, black, white, and yellow jerseys, various color gloves and shorts, and black and white ice skates. There are several hockey sticks and a hockey mask laying on the ice. The boy in the very front is wearing a black hat. All of the jerseys read [ICE HOCKEY / in Harlem] in various fonts.
The back of the photograph is white with a logo repeated in diagonal lines. The logo reads [Kodak PAPER] in two different fonts. There is also a series of letters and numbers going down the center.

National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Photographs and Still Images

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ice Hockey in Harlem

National Museum of African American History and Culture

2019.74.4

chromogenic development prints

© Ice Hockey in Harlem
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dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper

H x W: 4 × 6 in. (10.2 × 15.2 cm)

Object Name • Color photograph of Ice Hockey in Harlem team with their coach

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COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF ICE HOCKEY IN HARLEM TEAM WITH THEIR COACH

National Museum of African American History and Culture

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1980s

New York City • Harlem • United States • North and Central America

Hockey • Recreation • Youth • Children • Urban life • Sports

Locale • Harlem • City • New York City • State • New York • Country • United States • Continent • North and Central America

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