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LITERARY
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A Voice of Her Own
![Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral](images/ti013-th.jpg)
Phillis Wheatley (ca. 1753-1784)
Poems on Various Subjects,
Religious and Moral. . .
London, 1773
Rare Book & Special Collections
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We're Off to See the Wizard
Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Chicago and New York: G. M. Hill, 1900
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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A Whitman Notebook
![Holograph notebook,](images/ti038-th.jpg)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Holograph notebook,
ca. 1847-1854
Manuscript Division
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
"The Gift Outright"
Holograph
Manuscript Division
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Groucho's Letters
![Groucho Marx](images/ti099-th.jpg)
Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1963
Manuscript Division
Gift of Groucho Marx,1967 (140A)
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A Voice of Her Generation
![Renascence](images/ti063-th.jpg)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
"Renascence,"
Pencil holograph of the unfinished
original draft, ca. 1912
Manuscript Division
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Moby Dick Literary Map
Everett Henry (1893-1961)
The Voyage of the Pequod from the
book Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
Cleveland: Harris-Seybold, 1956
Geography & Map Division
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Anne Bradstreet, colonial poet
![Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning](images/at0177as-th.jpg)
Anne Bradstreet (1613-1672)
Several Poems Compiled with
Great Variety of Wit and Learning . . . .
[Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America].
Boston: John Foster, 1678
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Purchased from Peter Force, 1867 (177A)
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Capturing the Old West
![Frederic Remington (1861-1909) to Owen Wister](images/at0179.7s-th.jpg)
Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
to Owen Wister, ca. January 1895
Ink on paper, illustrated letter
with sketches by Remington
Manuscript Division
Gift of Frances Kemble
Wister Stokes, 1952 (179.7)
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The Virginian
![The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains](images/at0180.3s-th.jpg)
Owen Wister (1860-1938)
The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains.
New York: MacMillan Co., 1902
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1948 (180.3)
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MacLeish's "Ars Poetica"
![1924-1925 Paris](images/at0177.3s-th.jpg)
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
1924-1925 Paris
Notebook
Manuscript Division
Gift of the author (177.3)
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The Virginian, A Literary Map
![he Virginian from America's First "Western" Novel, Written by Owen Wister](images/at0183.6-th.jpg)
Everett Henry (1893-1961), illustrator
The Virginian from America's First "Western"
Novel, Written by Owen Wister.
Cleveland: Harris-Intertype, 1962
Color offset lithograph
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit (183.6)
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Philip Roth's Patrimony
![Patrimony](images/179.5s-th.jpg)
Philip Roth (b. 1933)
Patrimony [1991]
Typescript with holograph emendations
Manuscript Division
Gift of the author (179.5)
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Langston Hughes Requests
Loan for Tuition
![Langston Hughes (1902-1967) to Walter White, October 29, 1925](images/at0181d.3as-th.jpg)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
to Walter White, October 29, 1925
Typescript letter
Manuscript Division
Gift of the NAACP, 1964 (181D.3a)
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A Harsh Picture of America
![Martin Chuzzlewit](images/at0181a_5p1s-th.jpg)
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Martin Chuzzlewit
London: Chapman & Hall, September 1843
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division, (181A.5a-t)
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Charles Dickens's Walking Stick
![Charles Dickens's walking stick](images/at0180_4s-th.jpg)
Charles Dickens's walking stick
Wood with ivory head
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
Gift of John Batchelder, 1936 (180.4)
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![Charles Dickens's traveling cutlery kit](images/at0181d_5s-th.jpg) |
Charles Dickens's Traveling Kit
Charles Dickens's traveling cutlery kit
Ivory and metal
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
Gift of John Batchelder, 1936 (181D.5) |
The Bookman
![Patrimony](images/at0139.14s-th.jpg)
The Bookman--April
Color lithograph, 1896
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of the Estate of J. H. Corning, 1940 (139.14)
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John Steinbeck Map of America
![Langston Hughes (1902-1967) to Walter White, October 29, 1925](images/at0181_10-th.jpg)
Molly Maguire
The John Steinbeck Map of America [Literary map collection]
Color lithograph map
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1986
Geography & Map Division (181.10)
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![Booklover's Map of the United States](images/at0181_12s-th.jpg) |
A Booklover's Map
Amy Jones (Designer and illustrator)
Booklover's Map of the United States
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1949
Color lithograph map
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit (181.12)
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FINE
ARTS |
Provincetown Printmakers
![Love Apples](images/ti037-th.jpg)
Edna Boies Hopkins (1872-1937)
Love Apples
Color woodcut, ca. 1915
Prints and Photographs Division
Purchase, 1998 (139.9)
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June Roses
![June Roses](images/ti039-th.jpg) Blanche Lazzell (1892-1957)
June Roses
Color woodcut, 1922
Prints & Photographs
Division (140.10)
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Mary Cassatt
![Under the Horse Chestnut Tree](images/at0139.10s-th.jpg)
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)
Under the Horse Chestnut Tree
Drypoint and aquatint in color, ca. 1896
Prints & Photographs
Division
Pennell Fund purchase (139.10)
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Clarence H. White School of
Photography
![Preparing Yarn for Weaving](images/at0195.4as-th.jpg)
Wynn Richards (1888-1960)
Preparing Yarn for Weaving,
1948
[published in the June 1948 issue of Vogue]
Gelatin silver photo collage
Prints & Photographs
Division (195.4a)
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![Libertad](images/at0082.5s-th.jpg) |
Libertad
Ester Hernández
Libertad
Etching, 1977
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the artist (82.5)
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The Art of Romare Bearden
![Love Apples](images/at0139.12s-th.jpg)
Romare Bearden (1911B1988)
At the Window, 1971
Collage, mixed media
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation (139.12)
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A Romare Bearden Collage
![June Roses](images/at0140.13s-th.jpg)
Romare Bearden (1911-1988)
The Calabash, 1970
Collage, mixed media
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation (140.13)
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BOOK
ARTS |
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible
![A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth.](images/ti014-th.jpg)
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, or, Select Passages in the Old and
New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement
of Youth.
Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1788
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Janus Press
Barbara Luck
Night Street
Vermont: Janus Press, 1993
Mixed media
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Master Typographer
Frederic William Goudy (1865-1947)
"A Specimen of Monotype Kennerly."
Philadelphia: Progressive
Composition Company
Broadside
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Purchase, 1944 (174.3)
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Manuscript for Baum's Last Book
![Glinda of Oz](images/ti102-th.jpg)
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
Glinda of Oz
Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1920
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Baum Family, 2000 (182.4a,b)
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
First Edition
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
cover
Chicago and New York: George M. Hill, 1900
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
(184)
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DOMESTIC
ARTS |
Jefferson's Pasta Machine
![Maccaroni machine with instructions for making pasta](images/ti019-th.jpg)
Thomas Jefferson
["Maccaroni" machine with
instructions for making pasta]
Holograph drawing and text, 1787
Manuscript Division
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Culinary Arts
Marie Martinelo.
The New York Cook Book.
New York City: 1892
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Martha Jefferson's
Personal Effects
![Thomas Jefferson, Martha Jefferson, and Anne Cary Randolph](images/ti033-th.jpg)
Thomas Jefferson, Martha Jefferson,
and Anne Cary Randolph
Holograph manuscript notebook, 1772-1782
Manuscript Division
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Jefferson's Recipe for
Vanilla Ice Cream
![Jefferson's Recipe for Vanilla Ice Cream](images/ti034-th.jpg)
Holograph recipe,
1780s
Manuscript Division
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World War I Gardners
Maginel Wright Enright (1877-1966)
Follow the Pied Piper
Color lithograph, 1918
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-3691
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A First American
Cookbook
Amelia Simmons
American Cookery.
Hartford, Connecticut, 1796
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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The Millinery Trade Review,
1876-1938
The Millinery Trade Review
March 1897
New York: The Gallison &
Hobron Co., 1897
General Collections
Copyright deposit, 1897
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The Home Sewing Machine
![Home Excels All Others](images/at0201.3s-th.jpg)
Home Excels All Others
Lithographic Poster, ca. 1877
Prints & Photographs
Division (201.3)
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Culinary Arts
![Manuscript cookbook](images/s198.2p1-th.jpg)
Manuscript cookbook,
ca. 1770
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
(198.2)
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Arbiter of Fashion
![Fashions for December 1884](images/at0202.1p1s-th.jpg)
"Fashions for December 1884,"
Delineator, A Monthly Magazine.
Vol. 24, no. 6.
London and New York:
Butterick Publishing Co.
General Collections
Copyright deposit (202.1)
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"America Eats"
![Oysters and a political rally](images/199a.2cs-th.jpg)
Federal Writer's Project photographs for
the "America Eats" project
Anthony V. Ragusin
Oysters and a political rally, No. 1
Gelatin silver print, ca. 1930-1941
Prints & Photographs
Division,
WPA Transfer (199A.2c)
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First Yiddish Cookbook in America
![Lehr-bukh Vi Azoy Tsu Kokhen un Baken](images/vc199.6p25-th.jpg)
Hinde Amchanitzki
Lehr-bukh Vi Azoy Tsu Kokhen un Baken
[Textbook on How to Cook and Bake].
New York: 1901
African & Middle Eastern
Division (199.6)
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![Charles Dickens's traveling cutlery kit](images/at0204.5fs-th.jpg) |
Nineteenth-Century Product Labels
Patent medicine label
Get Fat on Lorings Fat-ten-U and Corpula Foods
(204.5f)
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs
Division
Copyright deposits |
Making Tamales
![(Making Tamales)](images/at0204_7s-th.jpg)
Carmen Lomas Garza (b. 1948)
Tamalada (Making
Tamales), 1990
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the artist (204.7)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09899
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Culinary Arts
![Attractive Meals Without Meat](images/at0201_5as-th.jpg)
G.C. Marson
Attractive Meals Without Meat.
London: G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1932
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division (201.5a)
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Doublemint Gum
![Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertisement](images/at0204_8as-th.jpg)
Otis Shepard (1894-1969)
Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertisements
Color offset bus posters, ca. 1939
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Rebel Randall (204.8a,b)
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Brand-Name Product Advertising
![Jell-O Strawberry Flavor.](images/at0205_3as-th.jpg)
Jell-O Strawberry Flavor.
Leroy, New York: The Genesee Pure Food Company
Chromo-lithograph poster, ca. 1905
Copyright Office
Copyright deposit (205.3a)
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POPULAR
LITERATURE |
Dime
Novels
![Buffalo Bills Special Service](images/ti015-th.jpg)
Buffalo Bill's Special
Service. No. 243.
New York: Buffalo Bill Stories,
1906
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (190.1)
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Tarzan
![Tarzan](images/ti052-th.jpg)
Burne Hogarth (1911-1996)
Tarzan
Ink, pencil, and white-out with scraping
out on layered paper board,
May 9, 1948
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-98552
©1948, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. |
Krazy
Kat
![Krazy Kat](images/ti066-th.jpg)
George Herriman (1880-1944)
Krazy Kat
Ink over Pencil with scraping out
and paste-on, June 8, 1941
Prints and Photographs Division
©1941, King Features Syndicate, Inc.
Gift of George Sturman |
The Kin-der-Kids
![The Kin-der-Kids](images/at0194_7-th.jpg)
Lyonel Feininger
(1871-1956)
[The Kin-der-Kids]
How the Jimjam relief expedition set out
Published in the Chicago Tribune,
June 24, 1906
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1906 (194.7)
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The
Yellow Kid
![New York Journal's Colored Comic Supplement](images/ti084-th.jpg)
New York Journal's Colored
Comic Supplement
Color lithographic poster
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1896 (192B)
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The Funnies
![The Funnies,](images/ti046-th.jpg)
The Funnies,
Vol. 1, no. 57
Dell Publishing Co., July 1941
Copyright deposit
Serial & Government
Publications Division (194.5) |
New York's Skyline,
September 11, 2002
![Fourteen drawings of the New York skyline showing the destruction of the World Trade Center towers during the September 11th terrorist attacks](images/0001r-th.jpg)
Rebecca Minnich
[Fourteen drawings of the New York skyline showing the
destruction of the World Trade Center towers during the September 11th terrorist
attacks], 2001
Photomechanical prints with ink, ink wash, porous point pen over graphite under
drawing on paper. Published with text in: World War 3 Illustrated,
#32
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of the artist, 2002 (194.6a-n)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-01868-1-14 |
Drawing
on Tragedy
![IX XI MMI, 2001 (fourth of five published drawings)](images/at0225.2as-th.jpg)
Mac McGill
IX XI MMI, 2001 (fourth of five published drawings)
Ink, opaque white, and overlays
over graphite on paper
Published in: World War 3 Illustrated, issue #32. Sacramento: Mordam
Records, ca. 2001
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist, 2002
Shown online with permission
of the artist (225.2a)
LC-DIG-ppmsca-01752
[digital ID# ppmsca-01752]
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LEISURE
ARTS |
Early Baseball Card
![Champions of America](images/ti021-th.jpg)
Charles H. Williamson (1826-1874)
Champions of America
Albumen silver print, 1865
Prints & Photographs Division
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Endless Summer
Toni Frissell (1907-88)
[The Whites and the Smiths Crossing
Bridge from Watch Island for
Tennis at Rum Point]
Gelatin silver print, July 1957
Prints & Photographs Division
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Baseball Cards
![Joe Tinker, John Evers, and Frank Chance, autographed cards](images/ti028-th.jpg)
American Tobacco Company
Joe Tinker, John Evers, and Frank Chance,
autographed cards
Color relief halftones mounted on cards, 1911
Prints & Photographs Division
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Baseball Songs
Jack Norworth, lyrics
"Take Me Out to the Ball-Game,"
1908
Music Division
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Breaking The Color Line
Jackie Robinson-Rookie of the Year
Vol. 1, no. 6.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett
Publications (July 1950)
Serials & Government Publications
Division
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The Jackie Robinson Story
![he Jackie Robinson Story](images/ti086-th.jpg) Lobby card promoting
The Jackie Robinson Story
[showing umpire arguing with Dodgers
manager as Robinson looks on]
Color lithograph
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
and Recorded Sound Division
Copyright deposit, 1950 (214.2)
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A Letter from Jackie Robinson
![Autograph Letter Signed](images/at0196cp1s-th.jpg)
Autograph Letter Signed,
Jackie Robinson to Ralph Norton,
May 5, 1947,
Manuscript Division,
Jackie Robinson Papers (196C)
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"This I believe..."
![This I Believe...,](images/at0196ap1s-th.jpg)
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
Typed Speech, "This I Believe...,"
by Jackie Robinson, n.d.,
Manuscript Division,
Jackie Robinson Papers (196A)
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An American Pastime
![Carlisle, 05](images/ti056-th.jpg)
H.F. Peck (active 1900s)
Carlisle, '05
Gelatin silver print, 1905
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-6022
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Grand Baseball Match
Concord Base Ball Club. Concord, Massachusetts
4th of July 1879! Grand Base Ball Match!
Concord: 1879
Broadside
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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![Chadwick's Base Ball Manual](images/at0213s-th.jpg) |
Rules of the Game
Chadwick's
Base Ball Manual.
London: George Routledge, 1874
Rare Book & Special Collection
Division (213)
Purchase, 1991 |
Dempsey and Baer in The Ring
![Dempsey and Baer in The Ring](images/ti072-th.jpg)
The Ring.
Vol. 14, no. 4, May 1935
Gift of Australian Institute of Sport, 1997
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Dempsey in The Ring
with Firpo
![The Ring](images/ti017-th.jpg)
The Ring.
Vol. 2, no. 9, October 1923
General Collections
Copyright deposit (210.4)
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Dempsey and Firpo
![Dempsey and Firpo](images/ti025-th.jpg)
George Bellows (1882-1925)
Dempsey and Firpo
Lithograph, 1923-1924
Prints and Photographs Division
(206.1)
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The Cincinnati Reds
![First Nine of the Cincinnati (Red Stockings) Base Ball Club.](images/ti077-th.jpg)
First Nine of the Cincinnati (Red Stockings) Base Ball Club.
New York: Tuchfarber, Walkley & Moelmann
Color lithograph, 1869
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1869 (207.1)
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The Washington Senators
![Washington Senators](images/at0213a_1-th.jpg)
Schutz Group
Photographers
Washington Senators
Gelatin silver print, 1913
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1913
LC-USZ62-102418 (213 A.1)
[digital ID# cph.3c02418]
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The Mighty Casey
William Schuman (1910-1992)
The Mighty Casey
Full score and sketch for
"Peanuts, Popcorn, Soda, Cracker Jacks"
Music Division
Gift of the composer (207.4a,b)
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Fashions for Cycling
![The Ladies Standard Magazine](images/at0209.2s-th.jpg)
The Ladies Standard Magazine
Vol. XVII, No. 4 (June 1897)
General Collections
Copyright deposit, 1897 (209.2)
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Master Illusionist
![Kellar's Startling Wonder](images/ti055-th.jpg)
Kellar's Startling Wonder
New York: Strobridge Lithograph
Company, ca. 1894
Prints and Photographs Division (217A)
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Spinner Play
![Spinner Play](images/at0217a.1s-th.jpg)
Benton Murdoch Spruance (1904-1967)
Spinner Play
Lithograph, 1934-1935
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the Alfred Bendiner
Foundation and Mrs. Alfred
Bendiner, 1982-1992 (217A.1)
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Swan Dive
![Swan Dive](images/at0217b.1s-th.jpg)
Mabel Wellington Jack (1890-1970)
Swan Dive
Lithograph, ca. mid-1930s
Prints & Photographs Division
W.P.A. transfer (217B.1)
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Bob Hope's Script for
His First Radio Series
![Bob Hope's First Radio Series Script](images/vc195.1p1-th.jpg)
Bob Hope's First Radio Series Script
Manuscript, January 4, 1935
Motion Picture, Broadcasting and
Recorded Sound Division
Gift of Bob and Dolores Hope, 2000 (195.1)
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A Spalding Guide
![Student basketball players of the National Training School for Women and Girls, Washington D.C.](images/at0209.3s-th.jpg)
[Student basketball players of the National Training
School for Women and Girls, Washington D.C.]
ca. [1900-1920]
Prints & Photographs Division (209.3)
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
![I am Coming](images/207.6s-th.jpg)
"I am Coming"
Courier Lithograph Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1900
Color lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (207.6)
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The Barnum's American Museum Illustrated
![Swan Dive](images/at0207_8s-th.jpg)
Barnum's American Museum Illustrated Magazine
New York: 1850
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (207.8)
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