Presented is a circa 1933 original black & white snapshot photograph of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, with his two sons, Jack and Jim. Naismith, a Canadian American, was a physical education instructor, a physician, a Christian chaplain, and a sports coach. While teaching future YMCA instructors at the organization's Springfield, Mass. facility, Naismith was tasked by his supervisor to come up with a safe indoor game, within two weeks, that the YMCA boisterous and cooped-up students could play in the gymnasium during the cold Massachusetts winters. Naismith nailed a peach basket to the wall at each end of the Springfield gym, devised rules that permitted no running with the ball and no dribbling. The students enjoyed the game and soon the sport began to spread to other Y's, and the spot quickly took off nationally, and then internationally. In 1898, Naismith founded the basketball program at the University of Kansas. Naturally, Naismith is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame. On the back of the photo is the stamp of the D'ambra Photo Service of Lawrence, Kansas, the city in which the University of Kansas was headquartered. Using blue ink, an unknown hand has printed Jack, Jim, and 1933 on the front of the photo. The photo seems a staged event showing Naismith seemingly coaching his sons in gymnastics move. The photo has a small stain near the upper right, but it is in otherwise excellent condition. The photo has been encapsulated and PSA Certified Type I AUTHENTIC.