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Section 15: Sports and Athletics, undated

 Series

  • Staff Only

Scope and Contents note

This section is alphabetized by sport topic: categories include archery, baseball, bicycling, billiards, boating, boxing, cricket and croquet, fishing, football, golf, roller skating, rowing, running, swings and hammocks, and tennis. Baseball and football are the largest categories, having more than sixty items each. The tremendous popularity of bicycling during the last quarter of the 19th century is well reflected in more than fifty pieces.

There is a list of all sheet music available in the "Baseball" folder. See printout in the Library.

Dates

  • Creation: undated

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The James Francis Driscoll collection of American sheet music is open for research in the General Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Arrangement note

Arranged alphabetically by topic.

General Physical Description note

Approximately 300 pieces

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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