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Patrick McCabe Papers

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

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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

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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

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

Professional Basketball Leagues (BAA and ABA) Team Media Guides Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BKP_547
Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by non-NBA major league professional basketball leagues. The collection includes media guides published by the Basketball Association of America (1946-1949) and the American Basketball Association (1967-1976). The annual guides published prior to each 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...
Dates: 1948-1975

Professional Basketball Leagues (NBA and ABA) All-Star Game Programs

 Collection
Identifier: BKP_625
Scope and Contents This collection contains programs published for All-Star games by professional basketball leagues. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game, stories about the current season, information about team owners or league officials, and advertisements. The programs tend to get longer and more substantial through the years. The host city is indicated for each...
Dates: 1957-2004

Professional Boxing Programs Collection

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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

Professional Football Annual Publications - Magazine Format Collection

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Identifier: FBP_195
Scope and Contents This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to professional football. The magazines mostly cover the National Football League and its rival leagues. Some magazines also provide information about football teams and leagues at other levels. The magazines published prior to the season—or sometimes during the season—generally included reviews of the previous year’s season; team and players statistics; and previews of the upcoming—or in-progress—season,...
Dates: 1935-1997

Professional Football Leagues (NFL and AFL) All-Star Games Programs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FBP_625
Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 40 professional football all-star game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-) and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes mostly NFL Pro-Bowl programs with a small number of AFL All-Star game programs. The programs typically contain photographs, statistics, and rosters of the players on the All-Star teams. Many programs also contain articles about the history of the All-Star game,...
Dates: 1951-1991

Professional Football Playoff and Championship Game Programs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FBP_620
Scope and Contents This collection consists of about 75 professional football playoff and championship game programs. Leagues represented include the National Football League (NFL, 1922-); the All-America Football Conference (AAFC, 1946-1949); and the American Football League (AFL, 1960-1969). The collection includes 41 Super Bowl programs. Inscribed signatures are present as noted. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the game. Some...
Dates: 1948-2013

Pugh Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5009
Abstract

A group of 12 letters written by the Western Pennsylvania Quakers John and Joseph Pugh during the Civil War. Included are 6 letters written by John during his service aboard the U.S.S. Quaker City, of the navy's East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Dates: 1862-1864

Randolph Huntington Horse Breeding Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7008
Content Description

A group of 53 letters from 27 correspondents sent to the noted horse breeder Randolph Huntington. All the letters in the collection deal with horses and breeding and are seeking information or advice from Huntington. Most of the letters in the collection date to after February 1894. The designation "ALS" for files indicates a handwritten autograph signed letter.

Dates: 1881-1903

Raymond E. F. Larsson Papers

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Identifier: MSN/MN 3000
Abstract

A collection consisting of the correspondence, writings, and drawings of the American poet Raymond E. F. Larsson (1901-1991). Also present are manuscripts by other authors, miscellaneous printed matter, and items relating to a 1983 exhibit about Larsson held in Notre Dame's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Dates: 1927-1983; Majority of material found within , 1940-1960

Read Family Correspondence

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Identifier: MSN/CW 5015
Abstract

A small group of papers originating with the Read family of the central Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Included are 28 letters written by three different family members during the Civil War: Confederate States soldier Thomas Griffin Read, Co. I, 33rd Virginia Infantry (10 letters); his wife Martha White Read, of Augusta County (15 letters); and the CS artilleryman John Henry Read (3 letters).

Dates: 1850-after 1900; Majority of material found in 1861-1865

Red Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10061
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...
Dates: 1888 - 2010; Majority of material found in 1945-1982

Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers

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Identifier: MSSP 1001
Scope and Contents The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...
Dates: 1904-1997; Majority of material found within 1904 - 1939

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Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States 5
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American League of Professional Baseball Clubs 6
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Catholic Church 6
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National Basketball Association 5
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American Basketball Association (1967-1976) 4
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Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia 4
Dallas Texans (Football team) 4
Denver Nuggets (Basketball team) 4
Indianapolis Colts (Football team) 4
Milwaukee Braves (Baseball team) 4
New Orleans Saints (Football team) 4
New York Knickerbockers (Basketball team) 4
New York Mets (Baseball team) 4
New York Titans (Football team) 4
New York Yankees (Football team) 4
Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team) 4
San Antonio Spurs (Basketball team) 4
San Diego Padres (Baseball team : National League of Professional Baseball Clubs) 4
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 4
Toronto Blue Jays (Baseball team) 4
Tunney, Gene (James Joseph), 1897-1978 4
United States. Army 4
Washington Senators (Baseball team : 1901-1960) 4
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Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983 3
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Detroit Red Wings (Hockey team) 3
Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons (Basketball team) 3
Golden State Warriors (Basketball team) 3
Harvard University 3
Houston Colt 45's (Baseball team) 3
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