Ephemera collection
Scope and Contents
A collection of ephemeral items, organized into 27 different subjects. Subjects include professional and amateur baseball leagues, teams, and players. Also includes spring training, regular season, post-season, and All-Star games. Other subjects include Negro leagues, women in baseball, international teams, scouts and scouting, passes and credentials, and lineup cards.
Dates
- 1845-20234
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions but viewing materials does require an appointment. Please contact the Giamatti Research Center, research@baseballhall.org, 607-547-0330.
Conditions Governing Use
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum provides use copies of materials to facilitate private study, scholarship, and research. The Museum welcomes you to use materials in our collections that are in the public domain and to make fair use of copyrighted materials as defined by copyright law and with proper citation. Permission to publish materials must be obtained from: Giamatti Research Center, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 25 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326 Phone: 607.547.0330 E-mail: research@baseballhall.org
Biographical / Historical
According to the Society of American Archivists, ephemera is defined as "Materials, usually printed documents, created for a specific, limited purpose, and generally designed to be discarded after use". Ephemera includes such things as advertisements, tickets, brochures, passes, and receipts. A repository may collect ephemera as examples or for historcal preservation. Individuals often collect ephemera as mementos or souvenirs because of their association with some person, event, or subject.
Extent
57.50 Linear Feet (in 46 document boxes, 23 flat boxes)
40.32 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
A collection of ephemera relating to a wide variety of baseball-related subjects on professional and amateur leagues, on teams, players, post-season games, patents, tours, stadiums, etc.
Arrangement
This collection is organized into 27 series, by subject.
Physical Location
Manuscript Archives, Aisle 1, Range a, b, c, Shelves 1-5 Manuscript Archives, Aisle 5, Range b, c, Shelves 1-6
Accruals
Items will be added as they are received.
Processing Information
Materials were placed in archival sleeves as needed, acid-free file folders, and either document boxes or flat boxes.
- All-Star Baseball Game
- Amateur baseball
- Baseball Hall of Famers
- Baseball players
- Baseball players in art
- Baseball scouts
- Cartoons (humorous images)
- Lineup cards
- National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (U.S.)
- National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
- Negro leagues
- Patents
- Postseason
- Souvenir programs
- Spring training (Baseball)
- Transcripts
- Women baseball players
- editorial cartoons
- Title
- Guide to the Ephemera collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Claudette Scrafford, manuscript archivist
- Date
- July 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Archives Repository