B+W photo of a Hoboken Football (soccer) Club team with coaches. (Hoboken?), Feb. 1950.
Entry/Object ID
2012.025.0002
Description
Black-and-white photo of a Hoboken Football (soccer) Club team with coaches. (Hoboken?), February 1950.
Digital image only; original 2-1/4" high x 3-7/16" wide, worn with tattered edge. Photographer not indicated. People are not identified. Reverse has contemporary ink notation: Feb. 1950. Tiffs media archive.
Original image held by Hoboken Football Club. A posed group photo outside with 8 players, young adults and men, in uniform plus two older men with overcoats and wearing hats plus another young man in an overcoat. The player third from left has a HFC patch on his jacket.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.025
Source or Donor
Marth, Bill
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Courtesy of Hoboken Football Club, Bill Marth.
Made/Created
Artist
n/a
Date made
1950
Place
Location
Hoboken?
General Notes
Note
Notes: Hoboken Football Club (soccer) was established in 1912 in Hoboken. They played on a sports field at Adams Street between 14th and 15th Streets in Hoboken until 1945. They then moved to Schuetzen Park until 1975. It is still in operation as of 2012 (celebrating their centennial), but they have not been based in Hoboken for several decades.
HFC
Original or Copy: Digital copy
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-05-27
