A framed Pan American Clipper Club Certificate filled out to Joseph Lyles from October 8, 1952. The certificate has drawings of airplanes from different eras and states "This is to ceritfy that Joseph Lyles having flown Round-the-World by Clipper has been elected a Charter Member of the Clipper Club." Signed by Juan Trippe, President. Lyles was a member of the U.S. All Stars and the New York Celtics, this team and the Harlem Globetrotters were the first professional basketball teams to ever tour the globe. The Harlem Globetrotters were celebrating their 25th anniversary by touring the World. They played in 44 countries in 168 days and covered 58,849 miles! Some of the locations on the tour included London, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triumph, the grave of General Patton, St. Peter’s in Rome, Egypt, Hong Kong, Athens, Singapore, Tokyo and Osaka. For more information on Joseph F. Lyles see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/127. Located in the Oversized Materials, art racks in rare book room (rack 4-lower right hand side.); Frame and much of matting is not shown in digital file due to the fact that it did not fit on flat bed scanner used in digitization of item;
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