Health & Physical Education Programs
American Memory Collections and Special Features from the LOC
| Library of Congress Subject | Collection Title & Description | Special Feature |
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| Advertising ~ Multiformat ~ 1850-1920 | Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920 The Emergence of Advertising in America presents over 9,000 images that illustrate the rise of consumer culture, especially after the American Civil War, and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States. Possible search terms: nutrition, milk, fruit, etc |
Timeline |
Baseball and Jackie Robinson ~ Multiformat ~ 1860-1969 |
Commemorates the achievements of Jackie Robinson and describes some aspects of the color line's development and the Negro Leagues. |
Drawing the Color Line: 1860s - 1890s Timeline of the history of baseball Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s - 1920s Sampling of baseball images; Photographs; Engravings; Lithographs |
Baseball Cards ~ 1887-1914 |
Collection of 2,100 early baseball cards dating from 1887 to 1914. |
History of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance; Baseball cards; Poem |
Baseball Guides and Spalding ~ 1889-1939 |
Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 15 Spalding's Official Baseball Guides printed between 1889 and 1939 and 20 Official Indoor Baseball Guides printed between 1903 and 1926. |
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| Chicago Daily News ~ Photographs ~ 1902-1933 | Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the newspaper. Search for specific sports or athletes |
Football Becomes a Major Sport In the twentieth century, American football developed from a game with few teams, few fans, and little standardized equipment into a major sport. This collection of photographs chronicles this change. |
Dance Manuals ~ Books ~ 1490-1920 |
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals Collection of over 200 social dance manuals, antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. |
Western Social Dance: An Overview of the Collection Explanation on the importance of dance manuals; Images; Directions Essay on how to read a dance manual; Instructions; Images; Video |
| Depression Era to World War II ~ FSA/OWI ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1945 | America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 Over 160,000 images documenting Americans in every party of the nation from the Great Depression to the mobilization effort of WWII. Possible search terms: nutrition, food, health |
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Posters, WPA ~ 1936-1943 |
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 Collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. |
WPA posters selected by Library of Congress staff 1938 WPA Calendar Interview with WPA Silkscreen Artist Tony Velonis Interview with WPA artist; Audio; Photographs |
| Work and Leisure ~ Films ~ 1894-1915 | America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894 - 1915 Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations). Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events. |
America at Work, School, and Leisure, 1894-1915 Select the At School to see physical education activities and At Leisure link to see a variety of sports. |
Exhibitions, Featured Activities and Research Centers at the LOC
Baseball...As American as Apple Pie
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