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Scope and Contents The Negro Leagues Pennant Collection consists of eleven felt pennants for African American baseball teams that played in the organized Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 1940s. The teams represented in the collection are the Homestead Grays, two examples, with one version spelled as “Greys”, the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cuban Stars, the Baltimore Elite Giants, the Newark Eagles, and the Philadelphia Stars. The pennants contain no information about their origin or date of...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, and other items related to the New York Yankees' efforts to encourage state legislation (primarily the 1918 Lawson Bill) permitting Sunday baseball in New York state. Many of the letters are directed to Yankees president Jacob Ruppert by politicians responding to the club's letter asking, “Will you, if elected, favor an amendment of the Penal Code which will permit the citizens to enjoy professional base ball and other forms of harmless...

Scope and Contents The first part of the collection includes a video archive of interviews conducted by Nicolas Miletitch with seventeen famous Soviet human rights activists and dissidents. The video archive is accompanied by full transcripts of interviews. The interviewees describe their “anti-Soviet” activities defending human rights under the totalitarian regime in the 1960s-1980s. Among topics discussed are working of the Solzhenitsyn Fund; activities of the Moscow Helsinki Watch group (1976-1980) which...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of several pieces of correspondence and ephemera originally sent to Nora Ashe in June 1916 and June 1917. Included are three letters, two telegrams, and one copy of the Liberator newspaper.The content mainly relates to the imprisonment of Nora’s brother, Thomas Ashe, in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, his homecoming journey in June 1917 as well as some references to the impending 1917 East Clare by-election. One letter additionally hints at...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 75 scrapbooks mostly covering professional boxing with some amateur boxing content, as well. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the 1920s through the 1970s. Sources include Detroit daily newspapers, The National Police Gazette, and a variety of other weekly and monthly magazines but citations are rarely included. The collection is divided into several roughly chronological, multi-volume series. 21 volumes focus...

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A four-page letter written on 15 April 1863 by Civil War private Ora W. Harvey of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, mostly discussing camp recreations, especially baseball.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of college football Orange Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Orange Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Orange Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Orange Bowl including beauty pageants and basketball...

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A manuscript diary for 1860 kept by a doctor named Ostrom Stephen Lont, from Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Accompanying the diary are around 40 unidentified carte-de-visite portrait photographs and two Lont family bibles.

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A collection of fourteen manuscripts, mostly letters, providing first-hand accounts of the sinking of the packet ship Liverpool in the North Atlantic in July 1822. The principal author is Hewlett Townsend Coles, the ship's second officer.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of eleven letters and two records dating from 1757 to 1777. Six of the letters are directed to Sarah Williams (four from the years before her marriage to Parsons, one from the time of the marriage, and one from after Parsons' death). Most are from female friends or relatives. There are three letters from Joseph Parsons, Jr. to his father, mostly relating to land and debts. Two additional letters (April 1764) were provoked by the ill health of Joseph Parsons, Jr. There...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the professional career of Irish writer Patrick McCabe. The majority of the collection consists of rough drafts of his drama, prose, and poetry, including some of his most popular works in film and literature, Breakfast on Pluto and The Butcher Boy. The collection also contains various ephemera and promotional materials for his published works. Also included are newspaper and magazine interviews, works of other writers,...

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Sixteen personal letters written by the brothers John Nathaniel Peed and James Oscar Peed, during their Civil War service in Co. I, 9th Virginia Cavalry (CS). Many of John Peed's 14 letters were written in 1864-65, from the environs of Petersburg.

Scope and Contents This collection details the writings and activities of Peter Michelson, an American poet and professor teaching at several universities around the United States. It contains records of his professional and academic career, including articles, article drafts, and related research; poetry and related drafts; monograph manuscripts, manuscript drafts, and related materials; and teaching materials and student papers. Also included in the collection are professional and personal correspondence,...

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The materials in this collection document the efforts of a very early social welfare organization in Philadelphia to aid the city’s Chinese citizens. Materials include correspondence of Edward Syle, an Episcopal missionary who worked closely with the Chinese; reports and minutes of meetings of the welfare committee; and a draft of the committee’s constitution.

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Three idiosyncratic manuscript journals of deeply cynical leftist political commentary, written by an unidentified Irish-American resident of Pittsburgh, ca. 1922-1932. The journals treat local, national, and international affairs, contemporaneous and historical: there is much on World War I, Ireland, and American politics generally. The volumes are illustrated with some 750 drawings, many of them portraits.

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This collection consists of a full set of the first series of Player’s Irish Place Names Cigarette Cards. Comprising twenty-five cards, each card was illustrated by Jack B. Yeats with place names in both English and Irish. The verso of each card briefly explores the etymology and history of each place name.

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A large disbound scrapbook of sports-related clippings, mostly pictorial, from The National Police Gazette, The Illustrated Police News, and The New York Illustrated News. Much of the material consists of engraved portraits of boxers of the 1880s and 1890s.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 2,400 college football game programs dating from the nineteenth century until 1939. The collection emphasizes prominent major college football teams, but hundreds of different four-year colleges from all parts of the United States are represented. Holdings for schools from the West are particularly strong. Most of the programs are from after 1921 with fewer than 100 programs for games from 1920 or before. The programs typically contain pictures, articles,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 1,750 National Football League regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs dating from the 1920s until 1969. This collection excludes post-season games and all-star games. Most of the programs are from after 1940 with only about 75 programs for games from before 1940. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team...

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Thirty-one personal letters written between members of the Price family of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois during the American Civil War. The letters are notable for their Copperhead and anti-abolitionist sentiments.

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by non-NBA major league professional basketball leagues. The collection includes media guides published by the Basketball Association of America (1946-1949) and the American Basketball Association (1967-1976). The annual guides published prior to each season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of...

Scope and Contents This collection contains programs published for All-Star games by professional basketball leagues. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game, stories about the current season, information about team owners or league officials, and advertisements. The programs tend to get longer and more substantial through the years. The host city is indicated for each...

Scope and Contents This collection contains about 140 programs issued for professional boxing matches. The programs usually contain at a minimum biographical and statistical information about the boxers involved in the match. The programs tend to become larger and more substantial over the years. Some programs also contain information about trainers, managers, referees, the venue, and historical information. Most of these programs represent fights of some significance; and many are from title fights in various...

Scope and Contents This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to professional football. The magazines mostly cover the National Football League and its rival leagues. Some magazines also provide information about football teams and leagues at other levels. The magazines published prior to the season—or sometimes during the season—generally included reviews of the previous year’s season; team and players statistics; and previews of the upcoming—or in-progress—season,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 40 professional football all-star game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-) and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes mostly NFL Pro-Bowl programs with a small number of AFL All-Star game programs. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 75 professional football playoff and championship game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-); the All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946-1949); and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes 41 Super Bowl programs. Inscribed signatures are present as noted. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the game. Some...

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A group of 12 letters written by the Western Pennsylvania Quakers John and Joseph Pugh during the Civil War. Included are 6 letters written by John during his service aboard the U.S.S. Quaker City, of the navy's East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

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A collection consisting of the correspondence, writings, and drawings of the American poet Raymond E. F. Larsson (1901-1991). Also present are manuscripts by other authors, miscellaneous printed matter, and items relating to a 1983 exhibit about Larsson held in Notre Dame's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

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A small group of papers originating with the Read family of the central Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Included are 28 letters written by three different family members during the Civil War: Confederate States soldier Thomas Griffin Read, Co. I, 33rd Virginia Infantry (10 letters); his wife Martha White Read, of Augusta County (15 letters); and the CS artilleryman John Henry Read (3 letters).