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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

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Southy L. Savage Letter

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 5039

Abstract

A letter written on 3 May 1864 by Southy L. Savage, as a member of the Confederate States Signal Corps. Savage describes his activities over the previous months, when he was stationed along the Potomac in King George County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia Ephemera Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSE/REE 0040

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of political ephemera documenting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Materials include broadsides and posters.

Dates: 1968

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Spanish Civil War Women's Ephemera Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSH/LAT 0121

Scope and Contents The Spanish Civil War Women’s Ephemera Collection comprises 8 folders of flyers and pamphlets from Republican women’s political organizations surrounding the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Materials encourage women to vote and get involved with political women’s groups, asking women to remember their roles as mothers, domestic laborers, and proletariat workers as reasons to be active. Topics mentioned are voluntary military service, political leaders and failures, voting rights, and song...

Dates: Majority of material found within Circa 1931-1938

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Sporting Goods Catalog Collection

Collection

Identifier: EPH 5063

Scope and Contents This collection consists of catalogs advertising sporting goods and athletic products. Many items are general purpose catalogs that offer products for a wide range of athletic activities. Other specialized catalogs cover topics like outdoors recreation, fishing, playground equipment, outdoor lighting, boxing,football practice equipment, and other subjects. Most catalogs include product descriptions, pricing information, and illustrations (sometimes in color) of the products for sale....

Dates: 1881-1979

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Stages of a Cock Fight Prints

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_10133

Scope and Contents

Complete set of six prints created by Newton Fielding illustrating different stages of a cock fighting match. The prints were published in 1853 by R. Ackermann for his Sporting Gallery located at 191 Regent Street in London. The engraved full-color aquatint plates measure 7 7/8" wide and 5 7/8" tall centered on the woven paper.

Dates: 1853

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Stanley Weston Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSSP 10062

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Stanley Weston, sportswriter and owner of The Ring Magazine. The bulk of the collection is a series of subject files assembled by Weston on over two thousand boxers and boxing-related subjects. Also included is an incomplete run of clippings on boxers from the 1950s. Weston’s papers also include research files on various sports, articles he authored, and magazine covers he designed. Finally, also...

Dates: 1883 - 2003

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Stephen and Peter T. Curran Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 10010

Scope and Contents This collection consists of six letters sent to Stephen Curran and his son, Peter T. Curran, in the seven decades following Stephen’s emigration from County Galway, Ireland to the United States. The correspondence consist of two letters to Stephen from his father, Peter Curran, and two from Stephen’s nieces, all sent from Kilkerrin, County Galway, Ireland. The final two letters are written to Stephen’s son, Peter T. Curran, in Kinsley, Kansas, from nieces in Chicago. Also included are a...

Dates: 1855 - 1916

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Steve Boda Big Ten Football Research Index Cards

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_10052

Content Description This collection contains statistical summaries of football games involving Big Ten conference schools created by NCAA statistician Steve Boda. Each 8" x 5" index cards lists individual and team statistics for specific games—conference and non-conference games—including rushing, passing, and scoring stats. The cards also record additional information like attendance and weather information. The collection includes statistical game summary cards for the 1933, 1934, and 1935 seasons and then...

Dates: 1933-1986

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Strahov Stadium X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) Gymnastics Exhibition Photo Album

Collection — Box: MSSP DC CC-0002

Identifier: MSSP_10006

Content Description One photograph album documenting the X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) gymnastic and physical education exhibition in Prague's Strahov Stadium in 1938. The photographs depict adults, mostly men with some women, and children participating in group synchronized physical education and gymnastic routines and other sports and activities, including parades. There are some group photographs of participants and spectators. Most photos measure 2.25 x 2.25 inches with a few larger images measuring...

Dates: 1938

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Stratford Festival Theatre Rendering Collection

Collection

Identifier: BPP6001

Content Description

Collection of original costume and set design drawings for the Stratford Theatre Festivals.

Dates: 1955 - 1995

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

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)

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Sugar Bowl College Football Programs

Collection

Identifier: FBC 624

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of college football Sugar Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Sugar Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Sugar Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more substantial through the years. Formats include programs.

Dates: 1939-2005

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Suspenders Manuscript

Item

Identifier: MSN/MN 9205

Abstract

A homemade pamphlet with eight pages of elaborate pencil illustrations and accompanying verse, telling a moralizing tale of a young man's search for a new pair of suspenders.

Dates: 1872

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Swansea Town Records

Collection

Identifier: MSN/COL 2718

Abstract

An accumulation of 49 single-sheet documents issuing from, or directed to, the various instruments of town government in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, mostly during the 18th century.

Dates: 1671-1807

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Sydney Hobart Ball and Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 0513

Scope and Contents The collection documents both the personal life and the professional activities of Sydney Hobart Ball. It includes more than 1,600 of Ball's letters, mainly written to family members while on mining trips around the world, as well as over 1,000 photos taken by Ball during these trips. There are also reports, articles and notes written by Ball on mining, as well as maps of places he visited. Also present in the collection is correspondence belonging to Ball's wife Mary, and to his daughters...

Dates: 1885 – 1991; Majority of material found in 1905 – 1949

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Taylor Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 5033

Abstract

Five letters written during the summer and fall of 1864 by the brothers (and Confederate cavalrymen) Jonathan Gibson Taylor and Robert Walker Taylor, of Daviess County, Kentucky. All were written from Federal prisoner of war camps, at Louisville, Rock Island, and Camp Douglas.

Dates: 1864

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Ted Coy Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_1007

Content Description The Ted Coy Papers document the football career and life of Edward H. "Ted" Coy (1888-1935), best known for being a two-time All-American football player at Yale University. One scrapbooks and two photo albums contain materials, including photographs, correspondence, school records and ephemera, related to Coy's athletic, academic, and social activities at the Hotchkiss School. One scrapbook includes mainly newspaper clippings documents the 1909 Yale football season. One scrapbook contains...

Dates: 1902-1932; Majority of material found within 1902-1909; 1928-1929

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Temperance Sketch Book

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: MSN/MN 10029

Scope and Contents

Untitled sketch book by an unknown author containing thirty pages of sketches of temperance allegories and cartoons. The images express the themes of temperance, including the perils of drink, the saving power of Christ and his teachings in the Bible, and the pernicious influence wielded by wealthy producers and purveyors of alcohol. The sketches also bear references to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

Dates: 1886 - 1889

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Canterbury All Saints Deeds

Collection

Identifier: MSE/EM 3707

Scope and Contents This collection documents the history of ownership of a property in Canterbury, England, located at the modern address of 8 All Saints' Ln, Canterbury CT1 2AU, UK (formerly 8 Brick Ln), between 1695 and 1935. The documents in this collection would have been compiled and used by each owner to establish and defend the chain of ownership and tenure of the property. The manuscript documents in this collection trace the property’s transformation from nondescript land and buildings to a complex...

Dates: 1694 - 1935

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Dante Alighieri and Divine Comedy Print Collection

Collection

Identifier: BPP 6000

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of loose prints and clippings relating to the life of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). The collection contains many printed examples of variant portrait types of Dante, including engravings based on the portraits of Giotto and Raphael. Also included are posters and other ephemeral materials from the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth in 1865.

Dates: Undated

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

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

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Hand of Fate: Fortune Telling Game

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: EPH 5053

Scope and Contents

One game manufactured by McLoughlin Bros. Players select a question from either of the two spinners they wish to divine the answer to, then place the spinner on the center of the game. The hand within the box spins, pointing to the answer of the question.

Dates: 1901

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Jackie Robinson Doll (13-inch Composition Doll)

Item — Box: MSSP10083 Box

Identifier: MSSP 10083

Scope and Contents One Jackie Robinson doll wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform. The doll is a 13-inch tall, fully jointed composition doll, molded with painted hair and painted facial features. The doll is wearing a blue Brooklyn Dodgers hat with with a white “B” logo, a blue warm-up jacket that reads “Dodgers” in white script, a gray jersey that reads “Dodgers” in blue script on the front and the number “42” in blue on the back, gray pants, blue socks, and black shoes with laces. Original...

Dates: 1950

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The José M. Martelli Collection of Savoy Documents

Collection

Identifier: MSE/EM 1050

Scope and Contents The José M. Martelli Collection of Savoy Documents compiles medieval and early modern documents (ca. 14th-19th centuries) relating to the House of Savoy and several prominent Savoy families, including the Viale, Valperga, and Santus Berna families. The majority of the documents in this collection can be traced to the Duchy of Savoy, a now defunct Savoyard state run by the House of Savoy between 1416-1847. The House of Savoy documents span the House's transformation from the Counts of Savoy...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1370 - 1904

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

"The Kodak Book" Cuban Photo Album

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: MSH/LAT 0082

Abstract

A souvenir photo album containing assorted photographs of major Cuban tourist sites, Havana street scenes, and images of officers, soldiers, and locations associated with the Spanish-American War.

Dates: circa 1895-1900

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The papers of Semyon Lipkin, Inna Lisnianskaia, Elena Makarova and the Makarov Family

Collection

Identifier: MSE/REE 0033

Content Description The archive contains the personal and professional papers of prominent Russian poets, writers, and translators Semyon Lipkin (1911–2003) and his wife, Inna Lisnianskaia (1928–2014). It also includes papers of Lisnianskaia’s daughter, a Russian-Israeli writer and educator Elena Makarova (b. 1951) and her husband, a Russian-Israeli writer and translator Sergei Makarov (1939-2017). Among the Makarov family members whose papers are well represented in the archive are his parents, Elga (Olga)...

Dates: 1910-2016

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Ronald Wells Collection on Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1032

Abstract A collection of materials on peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, including documents relating to the work of religious organizations. The collection includes papers of a number of religious organizations. The collection includes papers of a number of religious groups that formed between 1990 and 2005 to work towards reconciliation, and also on the work of the Consultative Group on the Past. The collection includes also pamphlets and books. Most of the collection dates from 1984 to...

Dates: circa 1979-2008

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Rough Riders: a Game

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: EPH 5050

Scope and Contents One simple racing board game for two or four players manufactured by Parker Brothers, Salem, Massachusetts as a part of its ‘Adventure Series.’ The game’s box lid depicts Teddy Roosevelt leading the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War in Cuba. The game board within is designed to represent the battlefield at San Juan Hill and is marked with ten possible routes from ‘camp’ to ‘victory.’ Players spin to advance wooden pawns along chosen routes. The first player to reach ‘victory’ wins...

Dates: 1900

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

The Silver Bullet; Or the Road to Berlin Board Game

Collection — Box: MSSP Game CC-0001

Identifier: MSSP_10091

Scope and Contents British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game depicting the beginning of World War One and charting an imagined British and Allied military campaign to capture Berlin, the German capital . The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course to “Berlin” at the top of the board. The start of the course is labeled “To Berlin” with an...

Dates: c. 1914

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

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Socialist Playing Cards Deck Collection

Southy L. Savage Letter

Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia Ephemera Collection

Spanish Civil War Women's Ephemera Collection

Sporting Goods Catalog Collection

Stages of a Cock Fight Prints

Stanley Weston Collection

Stephen and Peter T. Curran Correspondence

Steve Boda Big Ten Football Research Index Cards

Strahov Stadium X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) Gymnastics Exhibition Photo Album

Stratford Festival Theatre Rendering Collection

Strunsky-Walling Collection

Sugar Bowl College Football Programs

Suspenders Manuscript

Swansea Town Records

Sydney Hobart Ball and Family Papers

Taylor Family Correspondence

Ted Coy Papers

Temperance Sketch Book

The Canterbury All Saints Deeds

The Dante Alighieri and Divine Comedy Print Collection

The Errand Boy: or, Failure and Success

The Hand of Fate: Fortune Telling Game

The Jackie Robinson Doll (13-inch Composition Doll)

The José M. Martelli Collection of Savoy Documents

"The Kodak Book" Cuban Photo Album

The papers of Semyon Lipkin, Inna Lisnianskaia, Elena Makarova and the Makarov Family

The Ronald Wells Collection on Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

The Rough Riders: a Game

The Silver Bullet; Or the Road to Berlin Board Game

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