Sporting goods
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Late Nineteenth Century Lawn Tennis Photographs Album
Item — Box MSSP-5001: [Barcode: 00000039204367]
Identifier: MSSP_5001
Content Description
A collection of 31 miscellaneous photographic portraits and group portraits of people in lawn tennis attire and usually holding tennis rackets, probably dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The images include men, women, and children tennis players. Twenty-nine of the photographs are ferrotypes; two are albumen prints (the latter from German studios). The subjects, who vary from image to image, are unidentified; the collection appears to have been artificially...
Dates:
c, 1885-1905
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