Sports & Leisure

The nation's passion for sports is obvious every day—at NASCAR races, kiddie soccer matches, and countless other contests. From a handball used by Abraham Lincoln to Chris Evert's tennis racket to a baseball signed by Jackie Robinson, the roughly 6.000 objects in the Museum's sports collections bear witness to the vital place of sports in the nation's history. Paper sports objects in the collections, such as souvenir programs and baseball cards, number in the hundreds of thousands.

Leisure collections encompass a different range of objects, including camping vehicles and gear, video games, playing cards, sportswear, exercise equipment, and Currier and Ives prints of fishing, hunting, and horseracing. Some 4,000 toys dating from the colonial period to the present are a special strength of the collections.

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PG.67.88.00062
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270586
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67.88.00062
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PG.67.88.00063
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00063
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date made
1957
depicted (sitter)
Gibson, Althea
maker
TIME Inc.
ID Number
2016.0200.01
accession number
2016.0200
catalog number
2016.0200.01
mounted black and white photograph (possibly matte collodion) by J.B.
Description (Brief)
mounted black and white photograph (possibly matte collodion) by J.B. Wilson Studio, 389 State St., Chicago; image of 1897 Champions of the Mergantile Baseball League; team name is Mandel Bros.; nine men in baseball uniform with one man in black suit and white shirt sitting in center posing for photograph; players identified as 1. Werntz, Sec'y 2. Reker 3. Faulkner 4. Van Zandt 5. Wenig, G. 6. Litzinger, Capt. 7. Hebel, Mgr. 8. Wenig, F. 9. Burley 10. Alberts
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date made
1897
ID Number
1986.3048.2168
catalog number
1986.3048.2168
nonaccession number
1986.3048
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PG.67.88.00046
accession number
270586
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67.88.00046
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PG.67.88.00044
accession number
270586
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67.88.00044
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publisher
Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
ID Number
PG.67.88.00012
catalog number
67.88.00012
accession number
270586
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PG.67.88.00043
accession number
270586
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67.88.00043
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PG.67.88.00036
accession number
270586
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67.88.00036
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publisher
Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
ID Number
PG.67.88.00009
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00009
date made
1927-01
maker
Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
ID Number
PG.67.88.06801
catalog number
67.88.06801
accession number
270586
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Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
ID Number
PG.67.88.00014
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00014
publisher number
CH73823-42
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PG.67.88.00054
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270586
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67.88.00054
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PG.67.88.00028
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67.88.00028
accession number
270586
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CH73823-42
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PG.67.88.00056
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270586
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67.88.00056
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PG.67.88.00045
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270586
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67.88.00045
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PG.67.88.00037
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00037
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CH74347
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PG.67.88.00067
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00067
date made
1927-01
maker
Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
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PG.67.88.06802
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67.88.06802
accession number
270586
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PG.67.88.00051
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270586
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67.88.00051
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PG.67.88.00052
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270586
catalog number
67.88.00052
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CH74523
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PG.67.88.00029
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00029
publisher number
CH73823-42
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Underwood & Underwood Illustration Studios
ID Number
PG.67.88.00011
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00011
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PG.67.88.00066
accession number
270586
catalog number
67.88.00066

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