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CollectionAmerica at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures. Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 158 Items
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CollectionBain Collection The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the…
- Contributor: Bain News Service - Bain, George Grantham
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 41,519 Items
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CollectionBaseball Cards The Benjamin K. Edwards Collection includes 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. Distributed in cigarette packs, these cards were the forerunners of modern sports trading cards. They portray such…
- Contributor: American Tobacco Company
- Date: 1887
Collection Items: View 2,129 Items
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CollectionBaseball Sheet Music This presentation features 292 items of sheet music that reference baseball from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Many of the items shown represent the earliest widely-distributed baseball collectibles;…
Collection Items: View 318 Items
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CollectionBranch Rickey Papers The approximately 1,750 baseball scouting reports from the 1950s and 1960s presented here are part of the papers of Branch Rickey (1881-1965), best known as the executive who broke Major League Baseball's…
- Contributor: Rickey, Branch
Collection Items: View 38 Items
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CollectionBy Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's rookie season for the Brooklyn Dodgers. When he stepped onto Ebbets field on April 15th, 1947, Robinson became the first African American in the…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 77 Items
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CollectionEarly Baseball Publications This collection provides full-text digitized access to early baseball publications from the vast collections of the Library of Congress. The publications include a large selection of annual baseball guides, including numerous volumes…
Collection Items: View 126 Items
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CollectionGeospatial Applications Story Maps and web maps produced at the Library of Congress utilize geospatial technology to create curated entry points into our digital collections. We invite you to explore the incredible stories of…
Collection Items: View 126 Items
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CollectionMapping the National Parks This collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 173 Items
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CollectionThe Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 comprises a historic selection of Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide and the Official Indoor Base Ball Guide. The collection reproduces 35 of the guides, which were published…
Collection Items: View 39 Items
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CollectionSports Byline Since 1988, the Sports Byline USA radio series has regularly presented interviews with notable figures from the world of sports. To this point, they have aired over 6,400 such interviews with athletes,…
- Date: 1988
Collection Items: View 22 Items
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CollectionWinter Olympic Games 2002 Web Archive The 2002 Winter Olympics were held in Salt Lake City, Utah from February 8 through February 24, 2002. The Olympics are one of the most popular events on television worldwide. In addition…
- Date: 2002
Collection Items: View 64 Items