Newspaper clippings
Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Scope Note: Pieces of text cut out of newspapers.
Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:
John C. Bermingham Papers
Collection
Identifier: JCB
Scope and Contents
This collection documents John C. Bermingham's time a student at the University of Notre Dame from 1938-1942. Of particular note are the materials related to Bermingham's job as the Senior Manager of the Notre Dame varsity football team during the 1941 season. The records relate to Bermingham's responsibilities as Manager, including organizing the traveling party for away games, managing sideline passes for home games, and other activities. The collection contains photographs, documents,...
Dates:
circa 1938-1943
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
John DeWitt Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1003
Content Description
The primary item in this collection is one personal scrapbook kept by Princeton University football player John R. DeWitt during his time on the team from 1901-1903. The scrapbook includes news clippings, ephemera, photographs, telegrams, and other items. The collection also includes a few loose items. Materials in the scrapbook are chronologically arranged, and cover the 1902 and 1903 football seasons (with emphasis on the 1903 victory over Yale) and the 1903 and 1904 seasons in track and...
Dates:
1899-1931; Majority of material found within 1902-1904
John Joseph "Jack" McGrath Papers
Collection
Identifier: JJM
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of football grid graphs created by John J. McGrath while listening to radio broadcasts of Notre Dame football games. McGrath took notes during the game and charted the action on the field as described by the announcers. He recorded and described each play of the game on a football-field shaped diagram, using arrows, lines, and descriptive notes.McGrath’s grid graphs typically went through several phases. The grid graphs started from notes and diagrams...
Dates:
1939-1954
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Ken Smith Baseball Scorebooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10040
Content Description
This collections includes 13 small-format baseball scorebooks and numerous loose scoresheets with baseball games scored by Ken Smith (1902-1991) of the New York Mirror newspaper. Most recorded games were either home or road games involving the New York Yankees or New York Giants in the 1950s and early 1960s. Some scoresheets also includes printed box scores or other clippings. In addition to traditional baseball scorekeeping, many game sheets also contain notes about...
Dates:
1952-1963
Mary Clemency Papers
Collection
Identifier: CLM
Scope and Contents
The Mary Clemency Papers consist of materials collected by Mary Clemency related to the history of women’s basketball at the University of Notre Dame. The collection contains original documents, records, ephemera, photographs, and clippings related to the first organized women’s basketball teams on campus from 1972 through 1976, including bookstore basketball, interhall basketball, a women’s basketball interest group, and club basketball. The collection contains some correspondence between...
Dates:
1972 - 2011
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Michael Murray Notre Dame Rowing Club Collection
Collection
Identifier: MMR
Abstract
Ephemera, papers, and photographs collected by Michael Murray '68 regarding the Notre Dame Rowing Club, of which he was a founding member.
Dates:
1965-2011; Majority of material found within 1965-1991
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Mid-Twentieth Century Football Scrapbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1011
Content Description
This collection consists of 21 scrapbooks in loose-leaf binders about college and professional football in the years after World War Two. Spanning the years from 1946 to 1957, the scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper clippings, but also include magazine articles, programs, and game charts. The scrapbooks cover football on a national scale, though many scrapbook have an on pro and college teams from California and on the University of Notre Dame. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown...
Dates:
1946-1957
Mid-Twentieth Century New York City College Basketball Scrapbook
Item — 1: [Barcode: 00000039204383]
Identifier: MSSP_5009
Content Description
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about men's basketball derived from mainly New York City newspapers. A few clippings are from glossy publications like programs, magazines, or guidebooks. The vast majority of clippings consist of newspaper photographs of basketball teams, players, and coaches. Most images are posed with a few action shots. There are only a small number of clipped articles. There are a few clippings about other levels of basketball, including high school basketball. Most of...
Dates:
c. 1935-1950
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
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
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
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 contains news clippings from major weekly sporting publications like Sporting Life, the Sporting Times, Mirror of Sports, and, significantly, the short-lived National Daily Baseball Gazette from the spring of 1887. The scrapbooks also include clippings from major metropolitan newspapers mostly...
Dates:
1870-1887
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
Oversize scrapbook: news clippings re: Daniel Manion judiciary nomination (1 of 2), 1985 - 1986
Item — Box JDM 23: Series JDM, Item: 01
Identifier: JDM 23/01
Dates:
1985 - 1986
Oversize scrapbook: news clippings re: Daniel Manion judiciary nomination (2 of 2), 1986
Item — Box JDM 23: Series JDM, Item: 02
Identifier: JDM 23/02
Dates:
1986
Peter T. King Papers
Collection
Identifier: PKG
Abstract
Peter Thomas King (ND Law ‘68) is an American former politician and novelist. A member of the Republican Party, he represented New York's 3rd and then 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 until his retirement in 2021. This collection contains material in various formats documenting King’s 28 years of service in the U.S. Congress. Included are extensive files on his election campaigns, federal budget appropriations, and committee and legislation work. The...
Dates:
1967-2020
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
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
Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers
Collection
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
San Francisco Bay Area Football Scrapbooks Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1010
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 51 scrapbooks, most measuring 10.5 x 15 inches, covering primarily college and professional football in the San Francisco Bay area. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sources include San Francisco and Oakland newspapers, as well as other newspapers and magazines. Clippings include game reports, new stories, images, cartoons, advertisements, and other content. Scrapbooks 1 to 10 are...
Dates:
1945-1953
Scrapbook about the Death of Stanley Ketchel
Item — Box MSSP-2006: [Barcode: 00000039204342]
Identifier: MSSP_2006
Content Description
A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about the murder of middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel in Conway, Missouri, on October 15, 1910. Most clippings are annotated to indicate the source and date. The newspaper clippings derive from a large number of different American newspapers. The clippings range in date from October 15, 1910 to October 20, 1910, which was the date of Ketchel's funeral. Gilt lettering on the spine reads "Death / Stanley Ketchel / Clippings / Vol. 1 / 1910 /...
Dates:
1910
South Bend Farm Equipment Company, 1972
File — Box GHKY 02, Folder: 50
Identifier: GHKY 02/50
Scope and Contents
Company update in newspaper
Dates:
1972
Thomas Fitzpatrick Pacific Coast League Baseball Scorebooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10039
Content Description
This collection consists of 18 baseball fan scorebooks recording information about mostly Pacific Coast League (PCL) games in the 1950s and 1960s. Each of the scorebooks was commercially printed for the purpose of recording baseball statistics and were completed by hand. Some games and scorebooks are accompanied by newspaper clippings and fan newsletters. The vast majority of games involved PCL teams, with the Vancouver Mounties (an affiliate of several different Major League franchises...
Dates:
1958-1969
Wicker Buydden Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10034
Scope and Contents
This collection centers on the familial correspondence of Clifford Wicker Buydden, Wade James Buydden, Rachel Reno Wicker, and other members of the Wicker and Buydden families in the early twentieth century. Over a third of the collection is devoted to courtship correspondence between Clifford Wicker Buydden and Wade James Buydden. Of particular note within the collection are Clifford’s manuscript on health and food, Wade’s college application materials, Wade’s letters from Masonic...
Dates:
1898-1919; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1909