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Summer Primary Source Set

 

 

 

Baseball:

Spalding Base Ball Guides1889-1939

Baseball and Jackie Robinson 1860s-1960s

Baseball Cards 1887-1914

Baseball Sheet Music

 

Beaches:

Beaches. Cliff House in San Francisco

Four women walking along sea-shore

Bathing at Atlantic City (Movie)

Provincetown pier & gulls, Massachusetts

Probably San Mateo Beach

Beach with sunbathers

Stereoscopic views of Cape May, New Jersey

Santa Monica Pier

Revere Beach, MA

 

Camping:

Adults and small children camping in a forest preserve at Edgebrook in Chicago

Camping in the woods

Car camping

Camping out in Cottonwood Canyon

Camp site

Boy scouts gathered around a hike wagon at White Hall, Michigan

Camping scenes at auto trailer camp at Dennis Port, Massachusetts

Child of white migrant at camping grounds near Harlingen, Texas

Camping in mountains

Camp near the head of Pelican Creek, 15 miles east of Yellowstone Lake

The cowboys of Birdwood Ranch, Nebraska.

 

Coney Island:

Stereoscopic views of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York

Bird's eye view Coney Island

Shooting the chutes, Luna Park, Coney Island (Movie)

Coney Island 1910

Bathing in the ocean, 1912

Dreamland, Coney Island at night, Sept. 6, 1904

 

Fishing:

Scenery in the region of the Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania

Brook trout fishing (Movie)

Fisherman's luck Movie)

 

Ice Cream:

Thomas Jefferson's Ice Cream Recipe

Zaharako's Ice Cream Parlor in Columbus, IN.

Hetherington Confectionery & Ice Cream Shop in Oskaloosa, IA

Neapolitan ice cream

Ice cream vendor, Havana, Cuba

Ice cream party at Pie Town, New Mexico

Farmers freezing ice cream Pie Town, New Mexico

Schrafft's, Times Square. Ice cream case counter

Making ice cream

Ice cream stand along highway near Berlin, Connecticut

Farm boys eating ice-cream cones in Washington, Indiana

Syracuse ice cream vendor, New York

 

Sailing/Sailboats:

Stereoscopic views of Lake Erie

Makah sailing canoe, 1900

Schedule of United States mail steamers for 1853

Sailing card collection, ca. 1850-1860

S.S. "Coptic" sailing away

Pilot boats in New York harbor

Stereoscopic views of New York Harbor by E. & H.T. Anthony

Model yacht and motor boat races : Final championship at Central Park

Central Park, pond with sailboats, New York, NY

People sailing in sailboats on Lake Michigan

Large model or toy sailboats sitting in water during boat race in Ogden Park

Large model or toy sailboats in water during boat race in Ogden Park

 

State Fair:

Booth at State Fair about the Great Suffrage Movement

Ohio State Fair (Newspaper)

Daily News Soldiers Relief Fund booth at the Aurora State Fair

The National committee of the Maryland state fair (Newspaper)

What of teaching? : Illinois state teachers colleges exhibit

View on Illinois State Fair Grounds

Grand stand and other buildings, Illinois State Fair Grounds

Main Buildings", Illinois State Fair Grounds

Minnesota State Fair

Minnesota State Fair, September 9, 1911

Texas State Fair, Main Entrance

Vermont state fair

Kentucky State Fair, 1916, Louisville

Stock Parade at S. Dak. State Fair, 1912

 

Traveling:

Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century

Touring Turn-of-the- Century America 1880-1920

National Parks

Traveling in America 1750-1920

 

World's Fair:

1939 New York World's Fair

Proposed site for World's Fair in 1883

World's Fair Century of Progress Official Band

Max Bennix and the World's Fair Century of Progress Official Band

Take A Kodak With you to the World's Fair

Worlds Fair Follies with Miss America

Federal Building at the Century of Progress World's Fair, 1933-1934

Painting of the 1893 World's Fair by Edgar S. Cameron

World's fair IBM show : Art of 79 countries.

World's Fair plan for St. Louis, MO

Pharus-map World's Fair St. Louis, 1904

Letter to Alexander Graham Bell concerning 1904 World's Fair

Proclamation for New Mexico Day at the World's fair at St. Louis

Appropriations of the States for the World's Fairs of 1876 and 1893

 

Other:

Photographs from The Chicago Daily Times1902-1933

Dance Instruction Manuals 1490-1920

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915

Washington, D.C. Sunday cyclists watching sailboats at Haines Point

 
 
 
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