Museum · VBV Buffalo Soldier Athletes · Victory by Valor

A museum archive drawer with medals, dog tags and a folded flag (concept plate)

Museum · archival photographs

Pvt. Willie Mays handing over his spikes for Army boots in 1952 — and, decades earlier, Black regulars of the segregated Army, the 9th, 10th, 24th and 25th, on the track and the ballfield. Five prints from Kevin Clark's collection, shown whole, captioned only with what the pictures themselves say.

The photographs The heroes in two uniforms

19 photographsMays 19529th · 10th · 24th · 25thTrack · baseballImages courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

The photographs

Two uniforms, in the prints.

Each print is shown whole.

AP Wirephoto print: Pvt. Willie Mays in Army uniform and garrison cap, smiling, holding a pair of baseball spikes in one hand and Army boots in the other, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 1952, with the printed caption strip below — Pvt. Willie Mays at Camp Kilmer, N.J., 1952 · U.S. Army photo via AP Wirephoto · supplied by Kevin Clark
Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

Sepia photograph of a track team seated on grass in front of a chalk scoreboard whose rows read 9, 24, 25 and AS, flanked by two officers holding megaphones — Infantry track meet, 9th · 24th · 25th Infantry, early 1900s
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Sepia photograph of eight track athletes and an officer under a pennant marked 25, bibs reading F 25 INF, mountains behind — 25th Infantry track team, early 1900s
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Black-and-white photograph of a baseball team in jerseys stencilled ANNEX, two officers at the ends, bats fanned on the ground — “ANNEX” baseball team, WWII era
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Newspaper clipping of a baseball team in jerseys lettered K, printed caption naming Troop K, 10th Cavalry, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1905 — Troop K, 10th Cavalry baseball team, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, 1905 (clipping)
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Team photograph of the St. Louis Stars baseball club in lettered jerseys, standing and seated in two rows before a grandstand, with the roster painted on the boards behind them — St. Louis Stars, National Negro League world champions
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Two photographs on one print: a boxer in trunks with gloves raised against a brick wall, and a shot putter mid-throw inside a marked circle as soldiers watch from benches — Boxing and the shot put, Army field day
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Black-and-white photograph of a Black sergeant in a greatcoat shaking hands with a white officer in front of a United States flag indoors — A sergeant shakes hands with an officer beneath the colours
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Black-and-white photograph of a smiling serviceman in fatigues and side cap, seated, holding a baseball glove — A serviceman with a baseball glove
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Black-and-white photograph of an officer in service dress pinning insignia to the uniform of a soldier standing at attention outdoors — An officer pins insignia on a soldier
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Black-and-white photograph of a soldier in helmet and fatigues standing beside a painted unit sign reading 274th T.H.C. MM CO. — A soldier beside the 274th company sign
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Black-and-white portrait of a soldier in beret and field uniform photographed in front of a United States flag — A soldier before the colours
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Black-and-white photograph of a college footballer wearing number 28 caught mid-kick, leather helmet, stadium behind — Number 28, mid-kick
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Black-and-white photograph of a baseball player sliding into a base in a cloud of dust as the fielder takes the throw and the umpire watches — A slide into the bag
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Page from the Victory by Valor script: a portrait of a soldier in service dress beside a paragraph about Jackie Robinson's Army service with the 9th Cavalry and the 761st, and Joe Louis intervening over his Officer Candidate School application — Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

Page from the Victory by Valor script: two baseball photographs beside a paragraph about Willie Mays's 1952 rookie season and his service during the Korean conflict — Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

Page from the Victory by Valor script: a photograph of two men in uniform and a wartime poster bearing Joe Louis's words, beside a paragraph on his Congressional Gold Medal — Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

Page from the Victory by Valor script: two photographs of a soldier beside a paragraph about Sugar Ray Robinson refusing to box exhibitions where Black soldiers were excluded from the audience — Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

Page from the Victory by Valor script: two portraits beside a paragraph about Arthur Ashe's UCLA scholarship, his Army commission and his 1968 championships — Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black

Credit

Images courtesy Anthony Powell, Portraits In Black.

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