Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Guide to the Charles E. McTiernan Scrapbook Collection

Summary

Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0202
Creators:
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Community Life
McTiernan, Charles A.
Dates:
1929-1931
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
0.3 Cubic feet
2 boxes, 7 volumes
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks include press clippings, mainly photographs of major league baseball players; pamphlets, including playing records of individual players; and a few loose newspaper clippings. Many newspaper photograph clippings of well-known players of the period include posed head and full-length portraits as well as numerous action pictures of batters, fielders and pitchers. No indication of dates or names of the publications. One scrapbook includes handwritten essays for a history class as well as the sports clippings.
Scope and Contents
The five pamphlets about various aspects of baseball include three published by manufacturers of baseball equipment. One, published by "Baseball Magazine", is a compilation of annual lifetime playing statistics on batting and pitching for over 200 major league players for 1903-1928.

Arrangement

Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series.
Series 1: Scrapbooks
Series 2: Pamphlets

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Collected by Charles E. McTiernan about 1929-1931, apparently while a high school student in Brooklyn, New York.

Administration

Author
Don Darroch
Processing Information
Collection processed by Don Darroch, 1986
Custodial History
Collection transferred to the Archives Center from the Division of Community Life (now Division of Cultural and Community Life), May 1986.

Using the Collection

Preferred Citation
Charles E. McTiernan Baseball Scrapbooks, 1929-1931, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Baseball Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sports Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Clippings -- 1900-1950 Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Scrapbooks -- 1900-1950 Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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