Sporting goods

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...

Content Description This collection contains a complete set of five cardboard die-cut Spalding Sporting Goods advertising stand-ups from 1896 demonstrating men and women athletes wearing Spalding apparel and using Spalding equipment. Three of the items exhibit paper loss on the back. Each of the displays is about 5 inches tall and between three and four inches wide. Sports represented are bicycling (woman); baseball (man); tennis (woman); football (man); and golf (man). This set of advertisements is cataloged...

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....