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Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia

National Museum of American History
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Object Details

Creator
Newman, Louis
Topic
Baseball
Provenance
Mr. Louis Newman donated the archival collection to the Archives Center and numerous artifacts to the Division of Cultural History in 1999. He donated nearly his entire collection of baseball books to the Babe Ruth Museum in Baltimore a short time later.
Creator
Newman, Louis
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Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia
Summary
Baseball memorabilia, including postcards, of teams, players, venues and other baseball-related topics; team programs, 1930s-1990s, mostly for minor league teams but including a few major league teams; sheet music; advertising on baseball topics; posters; black-and-white photographs of baseball players and teams; and ephemeral items such as ticket stubs.
Biographical / Historical
Lou Newman, a retired New York City businessman originally from Baltimore, is a third-generation baseball fan and collector of baseball memorabilia. He continued the tradition started by his grandfather and his father, of anything connected to baseball. Before he donated portions of it, Mr. Newman's massive collection filled an entire room in his home, and included baseball books numbering in the thousands, baseball games and toys, coin banks, watches and charms, pennants, uniforms, advertising, baseball art, bats, balls, baseball cards, products with player endorsements, buttons, pins, and numerous other types of items. Mr. Newman, in his travels throughout the U.S., expanded on the collection by gathering souvenirs and memorabilia from games and stadiums in the many places he visited, collecting not just on the major leagues but the minor leagues and spring training.
Extent
4 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 folder)
Date
1895-1999
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Identifier
NMAH.AC.0696
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sheet music
Tickets
Programs
Advertisements
Posters
Ephemera
Photographs
Citation
Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia, 1895-1999, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Cathy Keen, October 2000. Michael Benson's Ballparks of North America (McFarland and Co., 1989) was used as a reference guide for the postcards of baseball parks and venues. Former Major League Teams: An Encyclopedia by Donald D. Jones (McFarland and Co., 1997) was used as a reference guide for postcards on teams. The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball (4th Revised Edition) by Hy Turkin and S.C. Thompson (A.S. Barnes and Company) was also used as a reference.
Rights
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Genre/Form
Sheet music
Tickets
Programs
Advertisements -- 20th century
Posters -- 20th century
Ephemera -- 1890-2000
Photographs -- 19th century
Scope and Contents
The archival collection is divided into seven series: Series 1: Team Programs, 1895-1999, mostly minor leagues; Series 2: Postcards, most undated but many go back to the turn of the 20th century, in addition to some before that date which are reproductions; Series 3: Sheet Music, 1908-1984, entirely on the subject of baseball; Series 4: Advertising, with baseball images, including advertising for newspapers, soft drinks, beer, tobacco and other products, and many posters, including one movie poster for a 1928 silent film Warming Up; Series 5: Photographs, mostly black and white portraits of major league players; Series 6: Miscellaneous Publications, undated and 1903, 1950, including a comic book, a short story magazine and a theater program; and Series 7: Ephemera, consisting entirely of ticket stubs.
Restrictions
Gloves required with unprotected photographs.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1503511610432-1503511610442-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8fcea9e08-a99b-4f95-98d4-53eb654dfed6

In the Collection

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  • Women's teams

  • Non-Major League teams

  • Photographs

  • American Indian teams

  • Miscellaneous baseball postcards

  • Photographs of baseball players, Face - Grove (includes autographed Jim Gentile photograph)

  • Savannah Senators

  • Teams

  • Minor League Programs, 1968:

  • Comical and picturesque baseball images

  • Minor League Programs, 1950-1959:

  • Team Programs

  • Savannah Reds

  • Minor League Programs

  • Savanna Braves

  • Advertisement for Nu-Grape Soda

  • Postcards

  • Advertising

  • Jackie Robinson (comic book)

  • Minor League Programs, 1974:

  • Foreign teams

  • Miscellaneous Publications

  • Japan

  • Austin Senators

  • St. Petersburg Cardinals

  • Fox Cities Foxes

  • Montreal Expos

  • "I Wan-ta Go to the Ball-Game" by Tell Taylor

  • New York Mets

  • Minor league teams

  • The Fightin' Phils by Bickley Reichner and Elliot Lawrence

  • Cincinnati, Ohio, Riverfront Stadium (Reds)

  • Washington, D.C., D.C. Stadium (later Robert F. Kennedy Stadium) (Senators)

  • Minor League Programs, 1970:

  • Unidentifiable

  • Minor League Programs, 1973:

  • St. Petersburg, Florida, Al Lang Field

  • Poster advertising The Rocky Mountain News

  • "Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)" (from Damn Yankees)

  • Topeka Hawks

  • Florida (general)

  • Sacramento Solons

  • New Jersey

  • Topeka Reds

  • Play Ball: Familiar Tunes for the Piano by Marie Westervelt

  • Sherbrooke (Quebec) Pirates

  • Minor League Programs, 1944-1949:

  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Shibe Park (also called Connie Mack Stadium) (Athletics)

  • Chicago Whales

  • "Who's Gonna Win the Pennant This Year?" by Herman Bandes, Gary Van Dyke, and Paul Germano

  • He's a Fan, Fan, Fan by Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrooke

  • New Hampshire

  • Non-baseball Venues

  • Los Angeles Dodgers

  • Salem Rebels

  • Hawaii Islanders

  • Minor league and other teams, unidentifiable

  • Cleveland, Ohio, League Park (Indians)

  • Minor League Programs, 1931-1939:

  • Bakersfield Dodgers

  • Sacramento Solons

  • Spartanburg Phillies

  • Baltimore Orioles

  • Cincinnati, Ohio, Crosley Field (called Redland Field, 1912-1933) (Reds)

  • Los Angeles Dodgers

  • Chicago Cubs, 1877, 1888

  • Atlanta Braves

  • Minor League Programs, 1967:

  • Used game tickets

  • Kansas City, Missouri, Royals Stadium (Royals)

  • Seattle Angels

  • Aberdeen (South Dakota) Pheasants

  • New York Mets

  • Walla Walla Padres

  • Decatur Commodores

  • South Carolina

  • Lewiston (Idaho) Broncs

  • Chicago (team?)

  • Oklahoma City Eighty Niners

  • Colorado

  • Batavia (New York) Trojans

  • West Virginia

  • Bristol Twins

  • Albuquerque Dukes

  • Jacksonville, Florida, George G. Robinson Recreation and Sports Complex

  • Washington

  • South Dakota

  • New York Mets

  • Caldwell (Idaho) Cubs

  • Allentown (Pennsylvania) Cardinals

  • Amarillo Giants

  • Anderson (South Carolina) Senators

  • Magazine advertisement (from July 26, 1913 Literary Digest) for Tuxedo Tobacco

  • Lodi Padres

  • Eugene Emeralds

  • Minor League Programs, 1971:

  • "Willie, Mickey and 'the Duke' (Talkin' Baseball)" by Terry Cashman

  • Shreveport Sports

  • Miscellaneous postcards, some only peripherally baseball-related

  • Binghamton Triplets

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Minor League Programs, 1950-1959:
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