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Milo Bar-bell Company Strong Men Advertising Cards Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10085
Scope and Contents
Twenty-five advertising promotional cards, measuring 5 by 7 inches, published by the Milo Bar-bell Company. The cards feature weightlifters and strongmen in various poses, showing their muscles or exercising with various barbells and dumbbells. Many of the cards feature men posing while wearing little clothing. The original mailing envelope advertises the Milo Bar-bell Company, but none of the individual promotional cards reference the Milo Bar-bell Company.
Dates:
c. 1918
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
Minor League Baseball Team Programs and Scorecards Collection
Collection
Identifier: BAS 630
Scope and Contents
This collection contains more than 2,300 programs and scorecards published by Minor League Baseball teams. Teams published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams, players, coaches, and...
Dates:
1887-2009
Minor League Hockey Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: HKY_630
Scope and Contents
This collection contains more than 750 programs published by Minor League Hockey teams. Teams, venues, and other vendors published programs for purchase by fans. Many of the earlier programs were published by the arenas in which the teams played and include content on attractions other than hockey. The programs usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over...
Dates:
1933-2000
Mississippi Estate and Business Records
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 3201
Abstract
About two-thirds of this collection consists of Hinds County, Mississippi probate records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, pertaining to the settlement of 12 local estates. The remainder includes miscellaneous 19th-century court and business records from elsewhere in Mississippi, and from Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.
Dates:
1821-1902; Majority of material found in 1836-1872
Morris C. Foote Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0512
Abstract
Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.
Dates:
1863-1881, undated
Muhammad Ali Periodical Covers Collection
Collection
Identifier: BOX 902
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 220 individual periodical issues with covers that feature boxer Muhammad Ali. The collection includes about sixty different titles. Boxing magazines include titles like Natonal Police Gazette, The Ring, and Boxing Digest. General sports magazines include magazines like Sports Illustrated and World Sports. General interest magazines include...
Dates:
1962-2002
NASCAR Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: CAR_545
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides published by NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). The annual guides published prior to each NASCAR season generally included a review of the previous season including statistics and race results, a preview of the upcoming season, and driver profiles. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of races or racetracks and other information for the media. Many guides contain pictures and advertisements. Over the...
Dates:
1951-1989
Nat Fleischer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2003
Scope and Contents
The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...
Dates:
circa 1910-1967
Natalia A. and Irina V. Roskina Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0014
Abstract
The papers consist of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous items of Natalia A. Roskina and of her daughter, Irina V. Roskina, as well as 50 photographs of the two women and people they knew such as: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Evgenii Rein.
Dates:
1927-2013
Nathaniel Rogers Sermon Notebook
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSN/COL 9405
Abstract
A journal of sermon notes compiled by the Puritan divine Nathaniel Rogers (1598-1655), before and after his emigration from England to Massachusetts in 1636. The volume contains notes for at least 19 sermons audited by Rogers, and more than 100 composed by him.
Dates:
Circa 1635-1645
National Basketball Association (NBA) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKP_610
Scope and Contents
This collection contains nearly 1,000 programs and scorecards issued for National Basketball Association games. Teams, arenas, and other vendors published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the...
Dates:
1948-1984
National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKP_540
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides published by National Basketball Association. The annual guides published prior to each NBA 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 players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...
Dates:
1950-2000
National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Yearbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKP_570
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of National Basketball Association annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements. Formats include yearbooks.
Dates:
1950-2000
National Basketball League (NBL) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: BKP_613
Scope and Contents
This collection contains about 50 programs and scorecards issued for National Basketball League games. Teams, arenas, and other vendors published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams,...
Dates:
1944-1949
National Football League (NFL) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 540
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides published by teams in the National Football League. The annual guides published prior to each NFL 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 players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...
Dates:
1944-2013
National Football League (NFL) Team Pre-Season Prospectus Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 535
Scope and Contents
This collection contains pre-season prospectuses published by teams in the National Football League. The annual prospectuses generally included biographies of coaches and players, statistics, schedules, and other information. The prospectuses—produced closer to the beginning of the pre-season—were often typed and mimeographed and were less extensive than the contemporaneous team media guides.
Formats include prospectuses.
Dates:
1955-1984
National Football League (NFL) Team Yearbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 570
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of National Football League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.
Formats include yearbooks.
Dates:
1950-2015
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
National Hockey League (NHL) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: HKY_540
Scope and Contents
This collection contains nearly 600 media guides published by teams in the National Hockey League. The annual guides published prior to each NHL 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 players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other...
Dates:
1948-2017
National Hockey League (NHL) Team Yearbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: HKY_570
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of about 70 National Hockey League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.
Dates:
1968-2001
National Hockey League (NHL) Teams Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: HKY_610
Scope and Contents
This collection contains nearly 750 programs or scorecards issued for games involving National Hockey League teams. Teams, venues, and other vendors published programs for purchase by fans. Many of the earlier programs were published by the arenas in which the teams played and include content on attractions other than the NHL. The programs usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer,...
Dates:
1925-1996
National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS) Records
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10024
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable...
Dates:
1912 - 1964
National Women's Football League Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10087
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of printed material related to the National Women’s Football League (NWFL) and predecessor teams associated with the Women’s Professional Football League. The NWFL was a professional American tackle football league that existed from 1974 through 1988. The collection includes programs, yearbooks, guidebooks, ephemera, and clippings. The programs and yearbooks typically contain rosters, player bios and photographs, coaches bios and photographs, team histories, rules,...
Dates:
1972-1986
NCAA Division I Women’s Softball College World Series Programs
Collection
Identifier: GEN 645
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of programs for the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Softball Championships, also known as the Women College World Series. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams competing in the Women’s College World Series, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches, team personnel, and administrators. The programs usually also contain articles about contemporary softball, information about the host schools and...
Dates:
1986 - 2008
Negro Leagues Pennant Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10079
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...
Dates:
c. 1930s - c. 1940s
Negro Leagues Players Letters Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0012
Content Description
15 letters and cards written and signed by former Negro Leagues players responding to autograph collector Joel Meltzer. The correspondence ranges from small cards to multi-page letters. The authors of many letters discuss the best players they faced, answer other questions, and sometimes provide biographical details. Many letters reference photos or cards signed by the players for Meltzer. None of the letters, however, are accompanied by any signed memorabilia. There are also no envelopes or...
Dates:
c. 1991-95
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
Nicolas Miletitch Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0045
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...
Dates:
1970-2020
Nineteenth Century Baseball Publications Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10037
Content Description
This collections consists of three scrapbooks (one disbound) with clippings from baseball publications compiled by an unknown person or unknown people during the late nineteenth century. The scrapbooks contain news clippings from major weekly sporting publications like Sporting Life, the Sporting Times, Mirror of Sports, and, significantly, the short-lived 1887 National Daily Baseball Gazette. The scrapbooks also include clippings from major metropolitan newspapers mostly on the east coast...
Dates:
1870-1887