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All-American Girls Baseball League Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0014
Abstract
A substantial collection of manuscript material, photographs, and printed matter relating to the All-American Girls Baseball League, a women's professional league active in the American Midwest from 1943 to 1954. Included is a set of nine loose-leaf notebooks compiled by South Bend Blue Sox executive Harold T. Dailey, comprising a kind of documentary history of the league.
Dates:
1943-2000; Majority of material found in 1943-1954
Augustus Vincent Tack Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0505
Abstract
Incoming letters and documents preserved by the American painter Augustus Vincent Tack, mostly relating to his tenure (1914-1915?) as treasurer of the American Oil Development Company of Pittsburgh, the Tack family business.
Dates:
1914-1923; Majority of material found within ( 1914-1915)
Cleveland Murphy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10025
Scope and Contents
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence Cleveland Murphy received while serving in the military during the 1950s and 1960s. These include letters received from family, including his mother in Indianapolis, with news of home. He also received letters from his first wife between 1952 and 1953, discussing various personal and family matters, including her father's murder trial. The bulk of correspondence is from women Murphy dated in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to...
Dates:
1952 - 1966
Frank Slocum Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10021
Content Description
This collection contains professional and personal papers of Frank Slocum, a longtime administrator in major league baseball. A majority of the collection pertains to Slocum's work in the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball during the 1940s-1960s. These records include correspondence, circular memos, and research developed by the office. Topics covered include the reserve clause and engagement with politicians, the minor leagues, amateur baseball, little league, and other...
Dates:
1942-1989
Jimmy DeForest Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10000
Content Description
This collection contains manuscript material documenting boxing trainer Jimmy DeForest. The collection includes letters received by DeForest (mostly from 1926), personal effects like an address book, two date books, and business cards, and photographs related to his career in boxing and to his family. Several letters from Los Angeles-based boxing trainer Larney Lichtenstein in 1926 discuss the boxing scene, upcoming fights, and various boxers. Formats include letters, ephemera, and...
Dates:
c. 1890-1926
John Lukacs Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10033
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 82 boxes containing the professional papers of historian John Lukacs. Lukacs’ professional materials include samples from each stage of his writing process, including research files; article, essay, and poetry drafts; proofs; and published pieces in periodicals and clippings. The collection also contains contracts, financial records and lecture notes from his various teaching positions. Also included is Lukacs’ correspondence. Significant topics include 20th...
Dates:
1799 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2019
Jutta Schütt Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3826
Abstract
A series of documents and letters from Jutta Schütt, Rose Elvira Grandinetti, Nicholas Emerson Dante Russo, and others, beginning in July 1916 and ending in July 1939.
Dates:
1916 - 1939
Letters to Joe Jackson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0019
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 127 pieces of fan mail written to baseball player Joe “Shoeless Joe” Jackson in the years after his retirement. The correspondence was in the form of letters and postal cards and nearly all of the letters include the original mailing envelopes. Most of the letters are fan requests for autographs. Some of the autograph requests reference an article about Jackson that appeared in the October 1949 issue of Sport magazine, titled "This Is...
Dates:
1932-2004; Majority of material found within 1932-1957
Lonore Kent Collection on the Bonus Army March
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10053
Scope and Contents
The Lonore Kent Collection on the Bonus Army March, 1932, 1976, comprises two folders of materials relating to the Bonus Army March of 1932. This collection focuses on Lonore Kent Van Swearingen and Ruth Sarles Benedict's eye witness accounts of President Herbert Hoover’s attempted eviction of the Bonus Army from Washington D.C. on July 28, 1932.Included in the collection are New Bonus Army March flyers inviting "paint and varnish veterans" to attend a march on June 17, 1932, a...
Dates:
1932, 1976
New York Yankees Sunday Baseball Correspondence Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0010
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...
Dates:
1915 - 1928; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918
Robert M. Johnson Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10030
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the correspondence between journalist Robert M. Johnson; his wife, Mary Urquhart Johnson; and their daughters Margaret and Esther. Also included are greeting cards, a broadside, telegrams, postcards, and clippings. Johnson wrote to his daughters about stories he was working on, including the 1910 street car strike in Philadelphia, and about his work as a political journalist in San Antonio, Texas. Materials include letters, cards, postcards, clippings, and a...
Dates:
1904 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1930
Strunsky-Walling Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0509
Abstract
A collection of personal papers of the "millionaire socialists" Anna Strunsky Walling and William English Walling and their family, mostly dating from the 1920s and 30s. Included are more than 500 letters to, from, and between Strunsky-Walling family members, and two diaries of Anna Strunsky Walling.
Dates:
1906-1967; Majority of material found in ( 1925-1937)
William Pfaff Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10026
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of journalist William Pfaff. Pfaff’s professional materials include his writings from each stage of the writing process, such as research notes, drafts, proofs, and published materials. The collection also contains conference materials and speeches, financial records, and materials from Pfaff’s work at the Hudson Institute, a non-profit research center on public policy. Also included are Pfaff’s personal papers which consist of...
Dates:
1942-2015; Majority of material found in 1965-2015