- Title
- Pickup football game on Ellipse
- Description
- Washington residents often use the Mall as a place to play sports. This game of football in 1971 was organized enough that everyone brought helmets, but still fairly informal. They were playing on the Ellipse, which was home to four baseball diamonds in the mid 1900s.
- Date
- 1971
- Source
- The Historical Society of Washington, DC.
- Coverage
- 1950-1979
- Theme
- work & play
- Item sets
- Mall History Test
- Media
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