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Bert Bell Philadelphia Eagles Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1009
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of two spiral-bound notebooks with financial records related to the 1937 Philadelphia Eagles season. One notebook includes player salary information, and the second notebook includes information about advertisers in programs for home games and information about people who bought season tickets. The collection also includes one letter from Bert Bell to his wife Frances Upton.

Dates: 1934; 1937; Majority of material found in 1937

Birmingham Black Barons records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0001
Abstract

A collection of records, mostly financial, of the Birmingham (Alabama) Black Barons Negro Leagues professional baseball club. The most significant item in the collection is a manuscript cash book, showing the club's financial accounts with each of its players for the seasons 1926 through 1930.

Dates: 1923-1930

Cleveland Indians Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0022
Content Description 6 volumes of Cleveland Indians financial records. Five of the six volumes in this group (for 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1952) are Indians payroll ledgers, with figures entered for each semi-monthly pay period. The hundreds of named employees include players, office workers, scouts, ground crew, ushers, ticket takers, and police. Each volume contains about 200 pages of content, plus inserts; pages measure around 35 x 42 cm. Four of the five volumes are disbound. The sixth volume...
Dates: 1940-1952

Detroit Tigers Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0016
Scope and Contents Financial records related to the Detroit Tigers American League professional baseball team. Three bound accounting ledgers document the business operation of the Detroit Base Ball and Amusement Company and its successor the Detroit Base Ball Company. Entries in the ledgers record income and expenses for a wide variety of transactions, including player salaries, spring training trips, world series games, routine business matters, and other subjects. Among the notable names in the ledgers are...
Dates: 1903-1918

French Funerary Materials Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 2816
Abstract

Collection of documents relating to interment and mortuary law in early modern and modern France with a concentration on bureaucratic records from the Entreprise Générale des Inhumations of the Napoleonic era.

Dates: 1668-1888

Gene Tunney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2013
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...
Dates: 1858 - 1970; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1945

Green Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0508
Abstract

Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

Dates: 1773-1937

John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0504
Abstract

Around 80 manuscripts retained by John E. and Elizabeth Savage Brownlee in the decades following their emigration from Ireland to the United States in 1851. The greater number are personal letters written by family members.

Dates: 1852-1898

Philadelphia Athletics Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0021
Content Description 2 volumes of Philadelphia Athletics financial records. First ledger book (36 x 40 cm., 280 leaves, with 20 pages of manuscript entries) records transaction details about 175 players whom the Athletics either contractually controlled or tried out during the 1920, 1921, and 1922 seasons. The printed column headings in this oversized volume read: Date / Player / From Club / Agreement / Class / Cost / Exchange / Remarks. The second ledger book (29 X 44 cm) includes about 80 pages...
Dates: 1920-1922; 1930-1931

Philadelphia Phillies Cash Books Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0009
Content Description Two cash books detailing the finances of the Philadelphia National League baseball club (the Phillies) from March 1922 to July 1928, and from November 1934 to June 1940. The two books are similar in format. Income and expenditures are itemized in daybook form. A typical in-season month contains nearly 100 lines of identified expenditures, some of which are further annotated. These include payroll (players' salaries are lumped together), travel costs, equipment, gate receipt payouts, fees,...
Dates: 1922-28; 1934-40

Sinclair House Hotel Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10015
Content Description

This collections consists of financial records for the Sinclair House hotel in Bethlehem, New Hampshire in the White Mountains. Records include four account books with details of the financial operation of the hotel with both income and expenses, and one hotel register listing financial details for individual visits by guests.

Dates: 1881-1884

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