TENNIS RACKET COVER

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

TENNIS RACKET COVER

Entry/Object ID

98.29.2.3

Description

Color: Black A black fabric tennis racket cover, ca. 1920s. The item has a fabric string on one side of the mouth for securing the cover around the handle of the racket and is stamped with "STRUNG RIGHT / AT / HUNSAKER'S / SPORTING GOODS STORE / 429 West Second Street / Pomona, California / Phone 6967" in an Art Deco-style font. There are no other identifying features to the object, which is partially adhered to the tennis racket press that is item .2. There is some major cracking and brittleness to the cover along with stains and overall surface soiling, so the item is in poor condition.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Tennis

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Rackets (sports equipment), Hunsaker's Sporting Goods Store

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Rackets (Sports Equipment)