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Nineteenth Century Baseball Publications Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10037
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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

Contact:
102 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame IN 46556
574-631-0290