Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia
name: label: Creator
content: Newman, Louis
topic: label: Topic
content: Baseball
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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: label: Creator
content: Newman, Louis
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content: Lou Newman Collection of Baseball Memorabilia
abstract: label: Summary
content: 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.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lou Newman, a retired New York City businessman originally from Baltimore, is a third-generation baseball fan and collector of baseball memorabilia.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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Cubic feet (6 boxes, 1 folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1895-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0696
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sheet music
label: Type
content: Tickets
label: Type
content: Programs
label: Type
content: Advertisements
label: Type
content: Posters
label: Type
content: Ephemera
label: Type
content: Photographs
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: 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.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sheet music
label: Genre/Form
content: Tickets
label: Genre/Form
content: Programs
label: Genre/Form
content: Advertisements -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Posters -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Ephemera -- 1890-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 19th century
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.