Anonymous "All Sports" Clippings Scrapbooks
Content Description
This collection consists of 15 scrapbooks of sports clippings housed in period three-ring binders. The scrapbook clippings include material clipped from both newspapers and magazines and contains game reports, feature stories, opinion columns, cartoons, and other material from many different publications. The scrapbook covers the full range of popular college, professional, and amateur sports with some emphasis on baseball and boxing. Most clippings document men's sports, but there are also a smaller number of clipping about popular women's sports of the time. The collection include a small amount of manuscript material, chiefly handwritten scorekeeping of sporting events, as well as one signed postcard attributed to Babe Ruth. The scrapbook provide a documentary record of popular sportswriting available to fans in the years after World War Two.
Dates
- Creation: 1942, 1945-1957
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
There is no indication about who compiled the scrapbooks. There are some suggestions that the creator of the collection lived in Los Angeles. L.A. newspapers are well represented in the clippings, and one scrapbook is housed in a binder advertising Aero Industries Technical Institute, a civilian aircraft training school based in Los Angeles. The Babe Ruth postcard was sent to an address in Burbank.
Full Extent
3.3 Cubic Feet (15 flat boxes; Scrapbooks housed in period three ringer binders)
Language of Materials
English
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- March 2026
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections Repository