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Ryan, Frank J.
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1936-1982
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16 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0871
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Archival materials relating to Ryan's career as an athlete, a sports coach at Yale, an inventor, and an author. Includes photographs, the patent for Ryan's electro-mechanical football game, scrapbooks of newsclippings, Ryan's instructional books on sports, brochures, reprints of articles and other printed materials relating to Ryan's instructional ...
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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Sports
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1850-1957
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4.98 Cubic feet (consisting of 10 boxes, 3 folder, 8 oversize folders, 3 map case folders, 1flat box (partial), plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Sports
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Sports forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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Linkous, Eleanor
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1925-1956
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0.12 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0774
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A scorecard and program from the 1925 World Series; a scorecard and program for the 1937 All-Star Game; a program from the National Football League's World Championship game, 1942; and a program and scorecard from the 1956 All-Star Game. All of these games were played in Washington, D.C. Also includes some articles and two ticket stubs from the 195...
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Archives Center, NMAH, SI.
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1970-2002
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0796
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An artificial collection of sports memorabilia and printed ephemera organized according to sport. Examples of contents include team programs, season schedules and advertising.This collection has been integrated into the Archives Center Business Americana Collection (NMAH.AC.0404).
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Korda, Ronald S., -1996
Korda, Catherine
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1952-1996
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57 Cubic feet (259 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0545
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sports and trading cards, 1952-1996, amassed by card collector Ronald S. Korda. The sports cards are subdivided by sport. Baseball cards, (1952-1996), comprise the vast majority of the sports cards, while football (1968-1996) and hockey (1968-1996) are the two next largest subseries. There are lesser quantities of cards for basketball, and only a few each for all other sports, such as racing, skiing, etc. Non-sports cards cover a large variety of popular culture topics, including motion pictures, television programs, popular music, toys, games, cars and trucks, comics, fantasy art, and many other subjects. Some ephemeral items are also included in the collection, such as sticker albums, posters and programs
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National Portrait Gallery. Department of Exhibitions and Collections Management
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1979-1983, 1988, 2008
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8 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 09-066
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records which document the various aspects of exhibition development, planning, design and publicity for the exhibition, Champions of American Sport. This was the first major art exhibit devoted to outstanding American sports personalities and to the aesthetic qualities of sport and human movement. It consisted ...
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Jackson, Harry
Stall and Dean Co.
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1898-1998
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, 2 oversized folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0669
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Series 1, Stall and Dean's product catalogs, 1904-1973; Series 2, Stall and Dean's price lists, 1919-1966, and order blanks, 1998; Series 3, Promotional brochures, 1913 and 1926; Series 4, Catalogs of Stall and Dean's competitors, 1898-1966; Series 5, Non-sports catalogs, manuals and other printed materials, 1934-1962; and Series 6, Illustrations and graphic materials, undated.
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DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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1834-1983
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11 Boxes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0300.S07
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sam DeVincent loved music and art and began collecting sheet music with lithographs at an early age. Series 7: Sports contains 1,254 pieces of sheet music and song folios. Most of the sheet music is either piano or piano/ vocal arrangements. An overview to the entire DeVincent collection is available here: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music.
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Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture
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1996-1999
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0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
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- Accession 18-168
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records maintained by Ellen Roney Hughes, who served on the steering committee of the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture. The records document the Tenth Yale-Smithsonian Seminar on Material Culture and the essays on material aspects of sports presented at the event, which took place at the National Museum of ...
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bulk 2009
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2010.0038
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a 8.5 x 11 x 1 inch bound volume Master's thesis entitled "Pioneers of Flight: an Analysis of Gender Issues in United States Civilian (Sport) and Commercial Aviation 1920-1940" by Bieke Gils, in fulfillment of a Master's Degree of Human Kinetics at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.