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Photographs
 Websites presented in alphabetical order "America's National Game": The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs 
 "Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A.G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings." Also includes a brief background of the collection. From the New York Public Library (NYPL). http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/?collection=AmericasNationalGame&col_id=198 Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections Last updated Mar 25, 2008 Baseball and Jackie Robinson: Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
"This presentation was created to commemorate" the achievements of Jackie Robinson "and describe some aspects of the color line's development and the Negro Leagues." Includes photographs and illustrations, a timeline, an essay, and resources for teachers. Searchable, and browsable by subject. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/ Topics: Baseball, Black Resources, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History Last updated Oct 9, 2004 The Baseball Reliquary, Inc.
"The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit, educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its interaction with American culture by the preservation and exhibition of artifacts ..." The site features information about annual inductions into the organization's Shrine of the Eternals, a calendar of events, and descriptions and photographs of items in the Reliquary's unconventional collection. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission partially supports the organization. http://www.baseballreliquary.org/ Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Sep 21, 2003 Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s - 1920s
"Library of Congress staff selected this sampler of thirty-four images related to early baseball (1860s-1920s) from various files and collections in the Prints and Photographs Division. The factors that guided image selection included showing interesting games, some famous players, a variety of teams, different types of pictorial formats, and images with no copyright restrictions." Searchable, and browsable by subject. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmabout.html Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 9, 2004 Frank S. Matsura Image Collection
A collection of 1600 photos of the city of Okanogan, Washington, taken by Japanese-American professional photographer Frank S. Matsura between 1907 and 1913. Searchable, and browsable by topic (automobiles, baseball, basketball, children, Conconully Dam, dogs, farms, horses, hotels, irrigation, laborers, self-portraits, studio portraits, Native Americans, postcards, railroads). From the Department of Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmatsura.html Topics: Agriculture, Baseball, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, U.S. History By Place, United States History, Water Last updated Apr 22, 2003 The Great One: Roberto Clemente Walker
Devoted to Puerto-Rican born baseball player, "the first Latin American to enter the Hall of Fame," this site includes photographs, images of related memorabilia, and the right fielder's career statistics. Born Roberto Clemente Walker, he was known throughout his career as Roberto Clemente. Available in English and Spanish. From the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/clemente/ Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 17, 2009 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Cooperstown, New York, site dedicated to "collecting, through donation, baseball artifacts, works of art, literature, photographs, memorabilia and related materials which focus on the history of the game over time, its players, and those elected to the Hall of Fame." Visitor information, historical data, online exhibits, and educational resources are featured. http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/ Topics: Baseball, Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 17, 2009 Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939
A collection of 20 Official Indoor Baseball Guides and 15 Spalding's Official Base Ball Guides, which "featured editorials from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called minor leagues across the nation." Searchable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/spalding/ Topics: Baseball, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 16, 2009 The Sports Page: Images From the Keystone-Mast Collection
A collection of photographs of memorable moments and popular figures in American sports, as well as various forms of recreation and athletics throughout the world (1900 through the late 1930s). Topics include baseball, golf, Babe Ruth, and the 1932 Olympic games, held in Los Angeles. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/projects/stereo/sports/ Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, The Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future Last updated Jun 10, 2006 Vero Beach Dodgers
The Vero Beach Dodgers are the Florida State League A-ball affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and play their home games at Holman Stadium. Site has a team roster with player photographs and statistics, Florida League standings, and the team schedule. Vero Beach is the L.A. Dodgers' spring training site and the website has their spring training schedule. http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t457 Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jun 8, 2007 |
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