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.

Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1989-02-12
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.170
catalog number
2014.0112.170
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1989-02-12
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.180
catalog number
2014.0112.180
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1989-02-12
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.171
catalog number
2014.0112.171
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1989-02-12
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.175
catalog number
2014.0112.175
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1975-01-04
depicted (sitter)
Smith, Bobby
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.176
catalog number
2014.0112.176
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1975-12-23
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.185
catalog number
2014.0112.185
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1989-02-12
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.186
catalog number
2014.0112.186
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1975-01-04
depicted (sitter)
Snyder, Dick
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.172
catalog number
2014.0112.172
accession number
2014.0112
Currently not on view
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1989-02-12
depicted (sitter)
Frazier, Walt
photographer
Regan, Ken
ID Number
2014.0112.183
catalog number
2014.0112.183
accession number
2014.0112

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