1996.16.1

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Details

ID Number

1996.16.1

Category

Recreational Artifacts

Sub-category

sports equipment

Item Type

badminton

Item Name

racket

Date

1940

Materials

wood, unknown; leather, unknown; rubber; textile, canvas

Measurements

overall: 8 5/16 in x 26 1/2 in

Description

(.01 leather around butt of grip; thin rubber over grip; racquet head covered by a canvas covering wrapped by a shoe lace material
(.02) wood frame with metal wingnuts and springs in all four corners; springs separate 2 halves

History

Used by the donor's mother, Fyrn Allen, at a Badminton Club on Riverside Dr. at George Street. It may have been used earlier in Detroit at the YWCA.

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

Detroit (Mich.) place

Social life subject

Sports subject

Young Women's Christian Association / Auberges de jeunesse organization