Airport in Tunis during the Harlem Globetrotters 1952 World Tour
Description:
This is a small snapshot of people walking towards and away from a twin propeller engine plane on a flat field. A fence or gate is visible in the foreground. The photograph is thought to be of the airport in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, because of the "Tunis" is written on the back of the photograph. This is part of a photo album created by Joseph Lyles of the 1952 Harlem Globetrotter World Tour. Joe 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! Within the album are pictures of the Globetrotters, including Reese “Goose” Tatum (Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and infamous “clown” of basketball), and the New York Celtics, places visited and people met. Some of the photographs are identified, but most are not. Just some of the places shown are: 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. Writing on back: Tunis.; Photograph is among a set of 12 found loose in a scrapbook of photographs between pages, scanned as and named ms517-02-01-22-001-018 and ms517-02-01-22-001-019). It is not clear whether they were meant to be in that location or are related to the images on those pages.
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