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Gabriela Mistral Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0016
Scope and Contents The collection features 150 samples of correspondence by Chilean Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral, written between 1914 and 1957. The material shows Mistral’s personal relationships with friends and Chilean literary figures such as Manuel Magallanes Moure, Eduardo Barrios, and Hernán “Alone” Díaz Arrieta, among others. In the letters, Mistral shares personal reflections on her life and offers her opinions on the Latin American literary scene of the early 20th century. Along with...
Dates: 1914-1980

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

George Colin McKee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0501
Abstract

Personal, professional, and political correspondence and other papers of the Mississippi lawyer, planter, and politician George Colin McKee (1837-1890). McKee was a "carpetbagger" and moderate Republican who represented the Vicksburg district in Congress during Reconstruction. Most of the material dates from the 20 years following the Civil War, though there are McKee family papers extending into the 20th century.

Dates: 1860-1934; Majority of material found in ( 1864-1883)

George Koyt Short Track Motor Racing Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP10150
Content Description

The George Koyt Short Track Motor Racing Photographs comprises 459 photographs of short track racetracks in the United States and Canada. The collection contains images of speedways primarily located in the Midwest, East Coast, and one in Manitoba, Canada. Photographs capture mid-race shots, signage, fans, cars, and general layout of the raceways. Some images include racers such as Jody Ridley, Patrick Gann, and Tony Weyant, among others.

Dates: 1973-1995

G.K. Chesterton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3817
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.

Dates: 1893 - 1977

Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia and Rabinowich Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0013
Abstract Eleonora Petrovna Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia was a well known art critic and historian of art, and the collection consists of documents, diaries, correspondence, written drafts, photographs, books, and slides. Gomberg's daughter, Nina Rabinowich, is a practicing artist, and her husband, Boris Rabinowich, was an important non-conformist artist. The family emigrated to Vienna, Austria, in 1977, and the collection includes catalogs, brochures, and posters for art exhibits of both Boris and Nina as...
Dates: 1900-2014; (bulk 1930s-1990s)

Harlem Globetrotters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP 670
Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...
Dates: 1941-1976

Hugo Achugar Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0091
Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of Hugo Achugar. It contains records of Achugar's professional and academic career, including articles and article drafts; notes; lecture materials; poetry; conference materials; research files; notebooks; calendars; and Achugar's personal library. Also included with the collection are correspondence, photographs, and Achugar's own collegiate coursework. Significant topics represented in these files are poetry; Blanca Luz Brum (1905-1985); and Latin...
Dates: 1933, 1957, 1961-1964, 1969, 1973-2016

Huntly Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MN 5000
Abstract

The personal papers and research materials of the English theater and art critic Huntly Carter (1862-1942). The greater part of the collection consists of correspondence, printed ephemera, and photographs, many collected by Carter in interwar Germany and Russia as part of his research on the fine arts.

Dates: 1918-circa 1938; Majority of material found in 1925-1938

Irena S. Verblovskaia and Revolt I. Pimenov Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0018
Abstract

Personal correspondence between Irena S. Verblovskaia and her first husband Revolt I. Pimenov, who was one of the founders of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, written during their imprisonment for "anti-Soviet" activities (1958-1963).

Dates: 1957-2014

Irish Theatre Program Collection

 Collection
Identifier: EPH 5032
Scope and Contents

This artificial collection consists of theatre programs, totaling approximately 600 items, created by theatres and theatre companies throughout Ireland. Materials include programs, black-and-white photographs, and pamphlets.

Dates: 1899, 1904-2000, 2015, undated

Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS/PFEFER
Scope and Contents The Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection comprises more than 120 cubic feet of materials accumulated by Pfefer over a 45-year promotional and managerial career in professional wrestling, 1924-1969. Types of materials especially well represented include business and financial records; letters and telegrams; photographs; posters, handbills, and other publicity graphics; newspaper and magazine clippings; and wrestling programs and periodicals. Pfefer himself referred to these items, with...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1924-1969; 1913-1974, 1999-2000, 2018

Jackson Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5067
Abstract

A group of around 60 manuscript personal letters, almost all written by and/or to members of the Jackson family of Moore County, North Carolina before and during the Civil War. The collection includes letters of eleven Confederate States soldiers, serving in the 26th or 30th North Carolina Infantry or the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.

Dates: 1852-ca.1866

James C. Woodworth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1014
Abstract

Civil War papers and realia of James C. Woodworth of Worcester, Massachusetts, who from 1861 to 1864 served in Co. H of the 25th Massachusetts Infantry, rising to lieutenant. Included in the collection are a 6-volume wartime diary and an album containing 73 tintype portraits of members of Co. H.

Dates: 1861-1900; Majority of material found in 1861-1865

Jane L. Vache United States Women's Lacrosse Association British Touring Team Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10074
Scope and Contents Jane L. Vache United States Women’s Lacrosse Association British Touring Team Scrapbook comprises disbound scrapbook pages documenting the 1951 United States women’s lacrosse team’s trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Contents include programs, correspondence, clippings, matchbooks, photographs, pins, maps, ticket stubs, forms, and other ephemera. Many photographs are action shots from matches and practices, as well as images relating to locations visited during the tour. Additionally,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1947, 1951

Jay L. "Biffy" Lee Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10025
Content Description This collection consists of five scrapbooks compiled by Jay L. "Biffy" Lee. The bulk of the scrapbooks recount Lee's career as a football coach at the University of Buffalo in 1929-30. Materials in the scrapbook also document his long career selling life insurance for Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance company, Lee's other athletic and business interests, and biographical information about him. The scrapbooks mostly contain clippings, ephemera, photographs, and some manuscript material chiefly...
Dates: 1908-1947; Majority of material found within 1928-1931

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

J.J. O'Kelly (Sceilg) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1030
Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...
Dates: 1903 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1948

Joe Wilman Bowling Papers

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Identifier: MSSP_10035
Content Description The Joe Wilman Bowling Papers consists of material collected by Hall of Fame professional bowler, bowling writer, and bowling commentator Joe Wilman (1905-1969). 15 scrapbooks document Wilman's bowling career from 1920 through 1957. The earlier scrapbooks also contain information about Wilman's baseball and boxing careers. The scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper and magazine clippings, as well as, smaller amounts of ephemera, photographs, and correspondence. Eight boxes of materials document...
Dates: 1906-1970

John Carrington Cross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10065
Scope and Contents The John Carrington Cross Papers consist of typescript plays and short stories created by Cross while a graduate student in the dramatic arts department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A prolific writer who kept a wide circle of friends, Cross wrote regularly to friends and former classmates, some of whom were serving in the military during World War II. The collection contains many letters, from both male and female service members, that discuss work and living...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1860-2000

John DeWitt Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1003
Content Description The primary item in this collection is one personal scrapbook kept by Princeton University football player John R. DeWitt during his time on the team from 1901-1903. The scrapbook includes news clippings, ephemera, photographs, telegrams, and other items. The collection also includes a few loose items. Materials in the scrapbook are chronologically arranged, and cover the 1902 and 1903 football seasons (with emphasis on the 1903 victory over Yale) and the 1903 and 1904 seasons in track and...
Dates: 1899-1931; Majority of material found within 1902-1904

John H. Bracey, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10064
Scope and Contents The John H. Bracey, Jr. Collection comprises 27 boxes of materials containing professional files for John Bracey. Materials include but are not limited to professional papers, drafts, correspondence, publications, bulletins, reports, lecture notes, financial records, and administrative files. Additionally, Bracey collected ephemera and kept subject files on various topics throughout his career. Significant topics include Jesse Jackson’s Presidential campaign, the Caribbean, Malcolm X,...
Dates: 1816-2022

John H. Senior Philadelphia-Area Recreational Sports Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_5007
Content Description A pair of vernacular photograph albums associated with John H. Senior of Philadelphia. Most images depict athletic, leisure, and recreational activities around the Philadelphia with Senior and his friends. The images tend to show either scenic views of the natural landscape, or activities like camping, hiking, fishing, swimming, and many athletic sports, especially track and field. Senior and his friends were members of a Boys Club track team. There are also six views of the 1910 Penn...
Dates: 1906-1910

Johnny Evers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 0015
Abstract

A small collection of manuscripts, photographs, printed matter, and realia belonging to Hall of Fame second baseman Johnny Evers (1881-1947). Much of the material relates to the exhibition games played in Europe in 1924 by the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox, a series in which Evers participated as White Sox manager.

Dates: 1906-1976

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

Larry Fink Photographs from the Boxing Series Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10066
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 22 photographs by Larry Fink from his boxing series, The gelatin silver print photographs document several levels of the sport of boxing from 1990 through 1993. Many images capture aspiring boxers and their handlers at local and regional boxing gyms in the Philadelphia area like Champs Gym and the Blue Horizon Gym. Two photographs document the heavyweight championship boxing match between Mike Tyson and Donovan “Razor” Ruddock in Las Vegas in March 1991. One...
Dates: 1990 - 1993

Late Nineteenth Century Lawn Tennis Photographs Album

 Item — Box: MSSP-5001
Identifier: MSSP_5001
Content Description A collection of 31 miscellaneous photographic portraits and group portraits of people in lawn tennis attire and usually holding tennis rackets, probably dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The images include men, women, and children tennis players. Twenty-nine of the photographs are ferrotypes; two are albumen prints (the latter from German studios). The subjects, who vary from image to image, are unidentified; the collection appears to have been artificially...
Dates: c, 1885-1905

Le Rossignol Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3821
Abstract

A collection of personal letters written by Arthur Le Rossignol to his sister, Ethel, while he served in the British Motor Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front during World War I. Also included are letters written by Ethel, her colleague Pierre Pulinekse, and others.

Dates: 1914-1919

Lenore Mooney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0500
Abstract

The correspondence and other papers of the American Lenore Mooney (1859-1941), dating especially from her time as a relief worker in Paris during World War I. There are many letters to Mooney from French soldiers and others victimized by the war, as well as a substantial correspondence with nephew Charles E. Bayly, Jr., an ambulance driver with the American Field Service who subsequently served as sous-lieutenant in the French army.

Dates: 1887-1938; Majority of material found in ( 1917-1919)

Leonard Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 1000
Abstract

Manuscripts and other materials relating to the Confederate army service of the brothers Henry, Martin, Robert, and Joseph Leonard, of Iredell County, North Carolina, including records of Co. C, 48th North Carolina Infantry.

Dates: 1862-after 1865; Majority of material found in 1862-1865

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Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujer 1
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Ball, Katherine, 1915-1935 1
Ball, Mary Ainsley, 1879-1945 1
Ball, Mary Virginia, 1918-2010 1
Ball, Sydney H. (Sydney Hobart), 1877-1949 1
Barrès, Maurice, 1862-1923 1
Barrios, Eduardo (Barrios Hudtwalcker), 1884-1963 1
Battle Creek Belles (Baseball team) 1
Behan, Brendan 1
Benjamin, René, 1885-1948 1
Berry, Ernest Alexander, 1901-1963 1
Big Time Wrestling (Boston, Mass.) 1
Blue Horizon Boxing Arena (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Booth Family 1
Booth, Franklin, 1874-1948 1
Booth, Hanson 1
Boston Braves (Baseball team) 1
Boston University 1
Bracey, John H., Jr., 1941-2023 1
Brady, Mike (Michael Joseph), 1887-1972 1
Bronk, William 1
Brown, Reggie (Reginald Woodman Plummer), 1876-1961 1
Brum, Blanca Luz 1
Bryn Mawr College 1
Buffalo Bulls (Football team) 1
Bund Deutscher Mädel 1
Butz, Jim T. (James Thomas), 1924-2014 1
Buydden Family 1
Buydden, Clifford Wicker, 1881-1918 1
Buydden, Wade James, 1876-1949 1
Canadian Football League 1
Carolina Playmakers 1
Carter, Huntly, 1862-1942 1
Celtic Literary Society (Dublin, Ireland) 1
Champs Boxing Gym (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Chesterton, Cecil, 1879-1918 1
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874-1936 1
Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) 1
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) 1
Chuto, Jacques 1
Combs, William J., 1828-1904 1
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 2nd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 26th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 30th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 48th 1
Conradh na Gaeilge (Ireland) 1
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 1
Corbett, Rosamond Walling Tirana, 1910-1999 1
Corona Rolling Devils (wheelchair basketball team) 1
Coy, Edward H. "Ted", 1888-1935 1
Creagh, Liam 1
Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005 1
Cridler, Thomas W., (Thomas Wilbur), 1850-1914 1
Dailey, Harold T. 1
Darío, Rubén, 1867-1916 1
De Bhilmot, Séamus, 1902-1977 1
DeForest, Jimmy (James Royal), 1868-1932 1
DeWitt, John (John Riegel), 1881-1930 1
Demers, Adelard Pierre, 1863-1933 1
Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983 1
Deussing, Friederike, 1884- 1
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Durand, Augusto, 1871-1923 1
Durand, José 1
Dáil Éireann 1
Díaz Arrieta, Hernán, 1891-1984 1
Díaz de Guerra, María A. (María Amelia), 1924- 1
Edwards, Hilton, 1903-1982 1
Ellis, Roger (Roger Calvin), 1938-2008 1
Ernst (Family : (Rochester, N.Y.) (1831-) 1
Evers, Johnny 1
Ewbank, Weeb (1907-1998) 1
Faggs, Mae, 1932-2000 1
Fink, Larry, 1941- 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fleet, George Arthur, 1899-1988 1
Flores, Ricardo, 1854-1939 1
Folklore of Ireland Society 1
Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943 1
Fort Wayne Daisies (Baseball team) 1
Gaiety Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) 1