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Alec Goodman Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2008
Abstract
A group of more than 30 real-photo postcards, many inscribed, preserved by English boxing trainer Alec Goodman. Most relate to world welterweight champion Ted "Kid" Lewis, whom Goodman trained.
Dates:
ca. 1911-1919
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 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
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
Cleveland Newspapers Clippings World Series Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10038
Content Description
Two homemade scrapbooks compiled by an unknown person documenting baseball World Series game in the 1930s and 1940s primarily with clippings from Cleveland-area newspapers. Material includes game reports, columns, box scores, and reprinted images.
Dates:
1931-1942
Copy of Tommy Loughran's Personal Scrapbook [Facsimile]
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSSP_2012
Content Description
One volume of photocopied clippings, photographs, and other material relating to the boxing career of Tommy Loughran.A copied note at the beginning of the volume reads: "Thomas P. Loughran, 1634 Ritner Street, Phila. Pa. This book contains the clippings and results of all my boxing bouts and exhibitions except the first years of my career in which I did not bother with any clippings. My career started on December 9, 1919 at the Auditorium A.A. in Phila. at Sixth and...
Dates:
1897; 1919-1931; 2001-2005; Majority of material found within 1919-1931
ESCO Boxing Exhibit Cards Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP10093
Scope and Contents
This collection includes more than 300 exhibit cards featuring images of boxers. Cards are the size of postcards. The fronts of most cards contain an image of a boxer with his name and sometimes other information like hometown, nicknames, etc. The backs of cards from the 1920s often contain short bios and/or selected match results, and many have a postcard back for mailing. Some of the cards from the 1920s are tinted in different colors. Many cards, especially those printed after 1928,...
Dates:
1921-1960s
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
Golden Gloves Boxing Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: BOX_620
Scope and Contents
This collection contains about 75 programs issued for amateur golden gloves boxing tournaments. The programs usually contain at a minimum biographical and statistical information about the boxers involved in the tournament. 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. The majority of the programs are from the 1930s through the 1960s with few examples...
Dates:
1933-2005; Majority of material found within 1933-1971
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
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
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
Little Blue Books Collection
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5017
Abstract
The collection includes titles from the Little Blue Book and related series. Among the titles are ten duplicates.
Dates:
1919-1978
Little Leather Library Books
Collection
Identifier: EPH 5025
Abstract
The collection includes 31 titles published by the Little Leather Library Corporation.
Dates:
1916-1923
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
Marshall Smelser Research Collection on Babe Ruth
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0023
Content Description
Research notes and other materials accumulated by Marshall Smelser while writing his 1975 biography of Babe Ruth, The Life That Ruth Built. Included are 1) a file of approximately 1,500 index cards, chronologically arranged, indicating the news and feature stories on Ruth that appeared in the New York Times , 1914-1969; 2) a file of approximately 6,500 index cards of facts and observations pertaining to Ruth, with sources, arranged by chapter (i....
Dates:
c. 1970-1975
Minneapolis Public Library Boxing Photograph and Reference Files
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSSP_10018
Content Description
This collection contains several hundred folders of boxing-related research materials from the 1920-1940s, chiefly photographs and newspapers clippings. Originally compiled by the Minneapolis Public Library from the morgues of local newspapers, the collection is arranged by the names of individual boxers. Most boxers are represented by photographic prints, while only a few have associated clippings files. The collection includes files for both prominent boxers of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,...
Dates:
c. 1920s-1940s
National Girls Baseball League Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10071
Scope and Contents
The collection contains material related to the Chicago-based National Girls Baseball League, a professional league that rivaled the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. The collection chiefly consists of copies of the official magazine/program of the National Girls Baseball League published under various titles from 1949 to 1953 by Publishers, Inc. (1949) and by Merrell Features (1950-1953). The programs typically contain pictures, biographies, articles, and statistics about the...
Dates:
1949 - 1953
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
Odds and Ends of Boxing Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: BOX_750
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...
Dates:
c. 1928-1974
Professional Boxing Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: BOX_610
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...
Dates:
1897-1996
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
Scrapbook about the Death of Stanley Ketchel
Item — Box: MSSP-2006
Identifier: MSSP_2006
Content Description
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about the murder of middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel in Conway, Missouri, on October 15, 1910. Most clippings are annotated to indicate the source and date. The newspaper clippings derive from a large number of different American newspapers. The clippings range in date from October 15, 1910 to October 20, 1910, which was the date of Ketchel's funeral. Gilt lettering on the spine reads "Death / Stanley Ketchel / Clippings / Vol. 1 / 1910 /...
Dates:
1910
Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10168
Content Description
The Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection consists of one set of 54 socialist-themed playing cards including the standard 52 cards plus one joker and one information card. Published by the Chicago-based Charles H. Kerr Company, the cards contain images and verses critiquing capitalism and advocating socialism. Mary Marcy wrote the verses, and Ralph Chaplin drew the images that adorn the cards. Mary Marcy’s husband, Leslie H. Marcy, was also involved in designing the cards. A...
Dates:
1908-1912, 1981-1986; Majority of material found in 1908
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)
The Errand Boy: or, Failure and Success
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: EPH 5046
Scope and Contents
One game for two to four players, manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York. Players spin and move pieces across a board designed to represent the advancement of an errand boy from ‘applicant’ to ‘banker.’ Players are able to advance through the game when landing on numbered spaces corresponding with virtues (such as ‘Honesty’ and ‘Confidence,’) or job promotions, and are penalized when landing on numbered spaces corresponding with vices (such as ‘Gambling’ and ‘Drunkenness’). The first...
Dates:
Copyright: 1900
Tip-Top Boxing: The Manly Art of Self Defense Board Game
Collection — Box: MSSP10090 Box
Identifier: MSSP 10090
Scope and Contents
One board game for two players designed to simulate a boxing match. The metal board depicts a three-dimensional 8-inch by 8-inch boxing ring with ropes also made of metal. The game includes one metal and wood red spinning top and one metal and wood blue spinning top. Players spin the tops simultaneously, and the last top to fall wins the round. Players use wooden sticks inserted into peg holes to record the winner of each round. The game includes 12 red sticks and 8 blue...
Dates:
1922