Ora Morningstar
date: label: date made
content: 1910
name: label: publisher
content: Mecca Cigarettes
label: maker
content: Mecca Cigarettes
notes: label: Description
content: 1910 Mecca Cigarette collectible sports card featuring billiards champion Orlando "Ora" Morningstar.
label: Description
content: Orlando Morningstar (1874-1945) was a billiards player and artist. Born in Indiana, Morningstar is best remembered for winning the 18.1 balkline billiards championship in 1909 at Madison Square Garden (New York City). In addition to participating in competitions and exhibitions, Morningstar managed, and taught billiards, in pool halls in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and San Diego. Morningstar also produced landscape paintings while living in California.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Billiards
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0213.208
label: accession number
content: 1996.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0213.208
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, billiards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.2 cm x 6.2 cm; 2 27/32 in x 2 7/16 in