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Nora Ashe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1045
Scope and Contents This collection consists of several pieces of correspondence and ephemera originally sent to Nora Ashe in June 1916 and June 1917. Included are three letters, two telegrams, and one copy of the Liberator newspaper.The content mainly relates to the imprisonment of Nora’s brother, Thomas Ashe, in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, his homecoming journey in June 1917 as well as some references to the impending 1917 East Clare by-election. One letter additionally hints at...
Dates: 1916 - 1917

Norah Borges Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0004
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the personal letters of Norah Borges. All but one letter are sent to Esther Haldo de Amorim, with one letter sent to Aurora Haldo de Haldo. Also included are four drawings by Borges, and two programs of Borges’ exhibitions. Materials include letters, postcards, drawings, and pamphlets.

Dates: 1932 - 1971

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

Ontario Motor Speedway Budget Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10161
Scope and Contents

The Ontario Motor Speedway (OMS) Budget Records consists of 12 folders of original and photocopied budget records for the 1971 racing season. The material includes proposed budget documents and estimated attendance for events held at the track in 1971. The collection also includes budget records for six racing events in 1971 and selected 1971 expenditures for training, uniforms, capital improvements, and other expenses. Formats include financial records.

Dates: 1970-1971

Ora W. Harvey Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5026
Abstract

A four-page letter written on 15 April 1863 by Civil War private Ora W. Harvey of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, mostly discussing camp recreations, especially baseball.

Dates: 15 April 1863

Orange Bowl College Football Programs

 Collection
Identifier: FBC 622
Scope and Contents This collection consists of college football Orange Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Orange Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Orange Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Orange Bowl including beauty pageants and basketball...
Dates: 1940-2013

Ostrom Stephen Lont Diary

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Identifier: MSN/EA 8004
Abstract

A manuscript diary for 1860 kept by a doctor named Ostrom Stephen Lont, from Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Accompanying the diary are around 40 unidentified carte-de-visite portrait photographs and two Lont family bibles.

Dates: 1860

Packet Ship Liverpool Letters

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Identifier: MSN/EA 5022
Abstract

A collection of fourteen manuscripts, mostly letters, providing first-hand accounts of the sinking of the packet ship Liverpool in the North Atlantic in July 1822. The principal author is Hewlett Townsend Coles, the ship's second officer.

Dates: 1822

Pádraig Ó Concheanainn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1083
Abstract

A collection of the papers of Pádraig Ó Concheanainn, including letters on Irish language publications and family papers.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1928-1972

Paris-Heard Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0507
Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...
Dates: 1852-1937

Parsons-Williams Family Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/COL 8501
Scope and Contents The collection consists of eleven letters and two records dating from 1757 to 1777. Six of the letters are directed to Sarah Williams (four from the years before her marriage to Parsons, one from the time of the marriage, and one from after Parsons' death). Most are from female friends or relatives. There are three letters from Joseph Parsons, Jr. to his father, mostly relating to land and debts. Two additional letters (April 1764) were provoked by the ill health of Joseph Parsons, Jr. There...
Dates: 1757-1759

Patrick McCabe Papers

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Identifier: MSE/IR 2717
Scope and Contents This collection documents the professional career of Irish writer Patrick McCabe. The majority of the collection consists of rough drafts of his drama, prose, and poetry, including some of his most popular works in film and literature, Breakfast on Pluto and The Butcher Boy. The collection also contains various ephemera and promotional materials for his published works. Also included are newspaper and magazine interviews, works of other writers,...
Dates: 1946-2013; Majority of material found in 1980-2010

Paul Boesch Best of Texas Wrestling Financial Records

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Identifier: MSSP_10164
Scope and Contents This collection contains financial records related to 34 professional wrestling matches promoted by Paul Boesch in the city of Houston, Texas in the first half of the 1980s. Boesch’s promotion company was named Gulf Athletic Club and then Best of Texas Wrestling. Records include copies of tax reports sent to the Texas Department of Labor and Standards detailing wrestler pay and ticket sale information for matches; ticket sales account sheets for matches; wrestler paysheets for matches; gate...
Dates: 1980-1985

Peed Family Letters

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5037
Abstract

Sixteen personal letters written by the brothers John Nathaniel Peed and James Oscar Peed, during their Civil War service in Co. I, 9th Virginia Cavalry (CS). Many of John Peed's 14 letters were written in 1864-65, from the environs of Petersburg.

Dates: 1862-1865

Peter Michelson Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 10027
Scope and Contents This collection details the writings and activities of Peter Michelson, an American poet and professor teaching at several universities around the United States. It contains records of his professional and academic career, including articles, article drafts, and related research; poetry and related drafts; monograph manuscripts, manuscript drafts, and related materials; and teaching materials and student papers. Also included in the collection are professional and personal correspondence,...
Dates: 1967 - 2016

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 Chinese Social Relief Collection

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Identifier: MSN/MN 10028
Scope and Contents

The materials in this collection document the efforts of a very early social welfare organization in Philadelphia to aid the city’s Chinese citizens. Materials include correspondence of Edward Syle, an Episcopal missionary who worked closely with the Chinese; reports and minutes of meetings of the welfare committee; and a draft of the committee’s constitution.

Dates: 1883 - 1885

Philadelphia Phillies Cash Books Collection

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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

Photograph albums of the Warsaw Ghetto and Warsaw

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSE/REE0046
Content Description

Seventy one original photographic prints by an unidentified German photographer mounted on two photo albums. The first album houses twenty four photographic prints of the Warsaw Ghetto. The second album includes forty seven photographic prints of Warsaw.

Dates: circa 1940-1943.

"Photo's of Stars" Boys Basement Floor Hockey League Program Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10005
Content Description The main item in this collection is a homemade photo album titled "Floor Hockey Program: Photo's of Stars" [sic]. The album contains 23 black-and-white photographs measuring between 2.5 X 4.25 inches and 5 x 7 inches documenting an informal boys basement floor hockey league. The photos document about six different teen-age boys who participated in the league. The images depict the boys in posed group shots and posed hockey action including a posed fight. The images also show a radio booth,...
Dates: 1950s

Pittsburgh Outsider Journals

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Identifier: MSN/MN 8013
Abstract

Three idiosyncratic manuscript journals of deeply cynical leftist political commentary, written by an unidentified Irish-American resident of Pittsburgh, ca. 1922-1932. The journals treat local, national, and international affairs, contemporaneous and historical: there is much on World War I, Ireland, and American politics generally. The volumes are illustrated with some 750 drawings, many of them portraits.

Dates: 1922-1932

Player’s Irish Place Names Cigarette Cards

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1048
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a full set of the first series of Player’s Irish Place Names Cigarette Cards. Comprising twenty-five cards, each card was illustrated by Jack B. Yeats with place names in both English and Irish. The verso of each card briefly explores the etymology and history of each place name.

Dates: 1934

Police Gazette Sports Clippings Scrapbook

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Identifier: MSSP 2005
Abstract

A large disbound scrapbook of sports-related clippings, mostly pictorial, from The National Police Gazette, The Illustrated Police News, and The New York Illustrated News. Much of the material consists of engraved portraits of boxers of the 1880s and 1890s.

Dates: circa 1883 - circa 1920; Majority of material found within ( ca. 1883-ca. 1896)

Polievktov-Nikoladze Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0001
Abstract

This collection derives from three generations of a prominent and historically important Russian-Georgian family. It includes personal and professional correspondence, diaries, documents, photographs, and other manuscript and print formats.

Dates: 1890s-1980s

Polish Resistance During World War II Periodicals Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0043
Scope and Contents

The collection contains ephemera publications produced in clandestinely operating printing shops throughout Poland during the German occupation. The collection covers a wide range of groups active in the underground from nationalist to Soviet sympathizing communists. Of particular interest are titles which were printed during the Warsaw Uprising (August 1-October 2, 1944).

Dates: 1941-1945; Majority of material found in 1943-1945

Polish Solidarnosc Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0041
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of political ephemera produced by Solidarity (Solidarnosc), a Polish labor union founded in 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Materials include broadsides, pamphlets, handbills, realia, periodicals, photographs, and posters.

Dates: 1981 - 1988

Pre-1940 College Football Game Programs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FBC_610
Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 2,400 college football game programs dating from the nineteenth century until 1939. The collection emphasizes prominent major college football teams, but hundreds of different four-year colleges from all parts of the United States are represented. Holdings for schools from the West are particularly strong. Most of the programs are from after 1921 with fewer than 100 programs for games from 1920 or before. The programs typically contain pictures, articles,...
Dates: 1874-1939

Pre-1970 National Football League (NFL) Game Programs Collection

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Identifier: FBP_610
Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 1,750 National Football League regular season and pre-season exhibition game programs dating from the 1920s until 1969. This collection excludes post-season games and all-star games. Most of the programs are from after 1940 with only about 75 programs for games from before 1940. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team...
Dates: 1926-1969

Price Family Letters

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5110
Abstract

Thirty-one personal letters written between members of the Price family of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois during the American Civil War. The letters are notable for their Copperhead and anti-abolitionist sentiments.

Dates: 1863-1865

Prof. Adelard P. Demers Roller Skating Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10028
Content Description This collection includes the personal archive of Prof. Adelard P. Demers (1863-1933), a well-known professional champion and trick roller skater in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. Two scrapbooks that mainly include clippings and ephemera document his roller skating exploits. One scrapbook includes material about his roller skating exhibitions in the United States and Canada in the 1800s and the first decade of the twentieth century. The second scrapbook documents...
Dates: 1883-1949

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