1948 Photograph of Girls' Basketball Team

50th Anniversary, basketball, industry, refineries, Standard Oil Refinery, team, Wood River

“1948 Photograph of Girls' Basketball Team,” Madison Historical, accessed November 21, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/1487.

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This is a black and white photo of nine girls from the 1948-1949 girls' basketball team posing for a picture inside a gymnasium. Pictured in the front: Marian Ritter, Bernice Bosich, Emma Crum, Mildred Perica. Pictured in the back: Esther Johnson, Helen Emerick, Rose Manar, Mary Carpenter, Evelyn Skundrich. Vi Johnson was absent from the photograph.

Wood River Museum Standard Oil Collection

• industry
• culture
• Wood River
• refineries
• Standard Oil Refinery

April 1948

• Standard Oil Involvement in the Wood River Community
• Standard Oil’s Company Housing in Wood River, Illinois
• Wood River

• Photograph

• Black and white photographic print
• jpg

• Wood River, Illinois

• WRM-P-0126