Basketball pioneer players, Austin High School and manager, Flett, standing in a gymnasium 1906 Photo 
SUMMARY
Portrait of Whitehouse, McWhorter, Hughes, Gilmore, Grob, Element, Austin High School basketball players, and the manager, Flett, standing in a gymnasium probably in Austin, Illinois. An Austin pennant is hanging from a bar in back of the players. NOTESThis photonegative taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer may have been published in the newspaper. SDN-005107, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society.

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