Nineteenth Century Baseball Publications Scrapbooks
Content Description
This collections consists of three scrapbooks (one disbound) with clippings from baseball publications compiled by an unknown person or unknown people during the late nineteenth century. The scrapbooks contains news clippings from major weekly sporting publications like Sporting Life, the Sporting Times, Mirror of Sports, and, significantly, the short-lived National Daily Baseball Gazette from the spring of 1887. The scrapbooks also include clippings from major metropolitan newspapers mostly on the east coast or in the midwest.
Dates
- Creation: 1870-1887
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.
Full Extent
.66 Cubic Feet (3 flat boxes (letter))
Language of Materials
English
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- April 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