Hey Robbie, The Women's National Basketball Hall of Fame is located in Knoxville. As I recall, their collection includes some great resources on traveling women's basketball teams in the southeast around the 40s. http://www.wbhof.com/ Paul On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Davis, Robbie <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Everyone, > > As you know from Carol's announcement, we're excited that our > newly-selected "Hometown Teams" exhibition is beginning development. Of > course, that also means we've got a lot of work ahead of us. We'd love to > have your help and input as we begin identifying images for the exhibition. > > Our many journeys for MoMS have taught us many things. Perhaps most > importantly, we know that communities, small museums and small historical > societies all over the country have vast collections -- objects, images, you > name it. And, we believe that "Hometown Teams" will really benefit from > identifying images from every corner of the country to illustrate the impact > that sports has on building nation and community. > > Here's our plea. We know that you all know your state's cultural > organizations extremely well. Your own travels in your states have likely > revealed great local collections of sports images. Could you please let us > know of communities and museums in your state that you know have important > images reflecting sports history in your state or in their community? It > could be photos from a 1925 basketball championship game, or a photo of > crowds at a high school football game, or the first African American > baseball player in a rural community. We would like to begin researching and > obtaining images for the exhibition immediately. Leads from you will help us > tremendously. We look to many great archives and repositories to develop > MoMS exhibitions. We'll research them again for this project, but we feel > strongly this time that photos documenting local sports tend to remain close > to home. We know that including these images will make this project > incredibly rich and provide a solid foundation for superb local exhibitions > and programs. > > Please feel free to contact me ([log in to unmask]), Tiffany Ruhl ( > [log in to unmask]), and Alex Charleston ([log in to unmask]) with any > suggestions. We're also planning to send a note next week to past and future > venues in our database to request their help and will mention our search on > our blog, Facebook page and Twitter feed. > > Thanks in advance for helping us with this project. > > All the best, > Robbie > > Robbie Davis > Project Director, Museum on Main Street > Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service > P.O. Box 37012 MRC 941 > Washington, DC 20013-7012 > 202-633-5335 > [log in to unmask] > -- Paul McCoy Program Officer Humanities Tennessee 306 Gay Street, Suite 306 Nashville, TN 37201 615-770-0006, ext. 17