Scope and Contents This collection contains fall sports media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The guides typically emphasize football—but unlike media guides specifically devoted to football—fall sports media guides also include information about other traditional fall sports, most notably men’s soccer and men’s cross country and sometimes men’s golf and men’s tennis. By the 1970s and 1980s some media guides also cover women’s sports, particularly field...

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...