Women athletes

Scope and Contents Jane L. Vache United States Women’s Lacrosse Association British Touring Team Scrapbook comprises disbound scrapbook pages documenting the 1951 United States women’s lacrosse team’s trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Contents include programs, correspondence, clippings, matchbooks, photographs, pins, maps, ticket stubs, forms, and other ephemera. Many photographs are action shots from matches and practices, as well as images relating to locations visited during the tour. Additionally,...

Content Description This collection contains 10 postcards featuring images from the Labor Sports Union Athletic Meet held in Brooklyn, New York, on August 25-26, 1928. Most postcards have group images of athletes or teams with one image of an individual athlete. The postcards carry descriptive information on the front about the images, and many postcards include further hand-written information on the back. The name Sirkka Holm is also written in pencil on the back of each postcard, suggesting they were once...