[Biker Subculture][Harley Davidson] Photograph archive of the Southern Eagles Motorcycle Club and its association with Cable’s Harley-Davidson dealership in Winston-Salem, North Carolina between 1958 and 1968. The images show members, public events, and recreational activities of a regional motorcycle club during a period when organized riding groups expanded across the.....
De Montigny, Alfred. Les Stratagèmes des Échecs, ou collection des coups d’échecs les plus brillants et les plus curieux, tant dans la partie ordinaire que dans les différentes parties composées ; tirée des meilleurs Auteurs, et dont plusieurs n'ont point encore été publiés. Avec des planches où l'on trouve notée.....
Eustis, Celestine. Cooking in Old Creole Days, 1903, presents one of the earliest widely circulated printed accounts of Louisiana Creole cuisine and preserves culinary traditions shaped by African American cooks, French colonial influences, Caribbean foodways, and regional Southern ingredients. Written by New Orleans writer and philanthropist Celestine Eustis during a......
[Women's Sports] Women’s wrestling photograph archive documenting amateur competitions, gymnasium training, and professional wrestling performers between the 1940s and the 1970s. The images record women participating in a sport historically dominated by men, illustrating the gradual emergence of female wrestling as both an amateur athletic activity and a professional entertainment.....
Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, 1948 presents a twentieth-century fine press edition of the seventeenth-century English classic first published in 1653, a foundational text in angling literature and pastoral prose. Walton’s work combines practical instruction on fishing with reflective dialogue, poetry, and meditations on nature, shaping early modern recreational literature.....
Porsche 956 engineering and workshop photograph archive documenting the construction, assembly, and mechanical development of one of the defining endurance racing prototypes of the Group C era, circa early to mid 1980s. Introduced in 1982, the Porsche 956 transformed international sports car racing through its aluminum monocoque chassis, turbocharged flat-six.....
The Yacht “Fleetwing” of N.Y. 212 Tons. Competitor in the Great Ocean Yacht Race, from New York to Cowes, Dec. 1866. Making the run in 14 days 6 hours mean-time, an original color lithograph issued by Currier and Ives documenting one of the earliest celebrated transatlantic yacht competitions of the.....
Gloye, Eugene E. Archive of Autograph letters on Magic, late 1950s to mid 1960s, document the working methods, technical experimentation, and intellectual framework of a mid twentieth century American magician engaged in both performance and psychological analysis of illusion. Written primarily to fellow magician Don Tanner, these letters provide direct.....
Original final studio script for The Great White Hope (September 26, 1969). Adapted from Howard Sackler’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, the film dramatizes the career of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson through the fictional Jack Jefferson, portrayed by James Earl Jones. The production candidly explored the white supremacist backlash against Black athletic.....
Photographic archive documenting Ralph De Palma’s February 12–17, 1919 Daytona Beach straightaway record runs captures a pivotal episode in early American motorsports and post–World War I mechanical experimentation. De Palma, one of the most prominent drivers of the era, set world straightaway records in a Packard race car powered by.....
Foster, John B. Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide (1912) documents the organization, statistics, and cultural prominence of professional baseball during the early twentieth century, when the sport had become widely recognized as the United States’ national pastime. Edited by sportswriter John B. Foster and published during the period of rapid.....
[WOMEN IN SPORTS] Photographic collection of 18 rare vintage photos celebrating girls and women in sports. Some are identified with names and locations. Locations include New Jersey, Canada, New York, California, Massachusetts. Dated approximately 1900-1940. Various sizes; mostly between 8.5" x 11" and 6.5x 8.5", with four smaller photos at.....
Gentile, Maria. The Italian Cook Book: The Art of Eating Well (1919) documents the early transmission of Italian culinary practice into American domestic life following mass Italian immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written in English with bilingual Italian headings, the work presents Italian cuisine to an.....
[African American Sports] Archive of Joe Louis comics and magazines tracing the public reception and popularity of the Black heavyweight champion in pop culture including his military service, controversy, and status as a patriotic icon and role model after defeating Max Schmeling. 1937 to 1950. The six titles show how.....
Women’s participation in boxing long preceded formal recognition of the sport for female athletes, developing through informal exhibitions, training clubs, and novelty bouts that challenged prevailing gender norms. Although women were largely excluded from organized boxing competitions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scattered photographic evidence demonstrates that women.....
Women’s basketball photograph archive 1918–1929 documents the early institutionalization of women’s competitive athletics in the United States, recording team organization, uniform development, and player identification in the decades following the sport’s introduction to women’s education. Basketball, adapted for women in the 1890s under the direction of physical educator Senda Berenson.....
Takano, Sasaburō. Kendō Kyōhon establishes a foundational framework for modern kendo instruction in 1931, codifying swordsmanship techniques and pedagogy during a period of state-supported martial standardization in early Shōwa Japan. Takano, a leading practitioner of Ono-ha Ittō-ryū and a central figure in the formalization of modern kendo, contributed to the.....
Kendo photo archive, group of five press photographs dating from the 1930s to the 1950s, documenting the practice of Japanese swordsmanship in both Japan and the United States during a period of war, displacement, and postwar recovery. The material captures training, demonstration, and competition settings, providing visual evidence of how.....
Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000), a work by the beloved American chef documenting professional kitchen culture in late twentieth-century American restaurant life. Emerging from Bourdain’s experience as a New York chef, the book presents an account of culinary work that foregrounds hierarchy, discipline, and the.....
Press photograph archive of Renée Richards, 1976–1980, documents the emergence of transgender visibility within professional sports during a period of legal and cultural contestation over gender and athletic eligibility. Richards, an ophthalmologist who transitioned in the mid 1970s, became a central figure in debates over inclusion after successfully challenging the.....
[Coocking] Brillat-Savarin, Jean Antthelme. The Handbook of Dining or Corpulency and Leanness Scientifically Considered..by Brillat-Savarin.. London: Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. This is a later translation in English of the main parts of ʻPhysiologie du goût or THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE; Transcendental Gastronomy. of Brillat-Savarin. The original work in French.....
East Coast resort and camp photograph album documenting leisure travel, scouting, rail movement, and social life across North Carolina, Cape Cod, Prouts Neck, and other eastern locations, circa 1941 to 1944, with direct evidence of how wartime era recreation and home life continued throughout WWII. The album contains handwritten place.....
Gray, David. Gallops, 1929 Derrydale Press edition, presents a collection of equestrian sporting narratives rooted in American foxhunting culture and late nineteenth-century leisure traditions. Originally published in 1897, Gray’s work captures the language, customs, and social environment of mounted sport, offering insight into elite recreational practices and rural sporting life.....
Book collection, 1861–1957, assembling three works on mushrooms and truffles that document the development of mycology, foraging practices, and culinary uses of fungi across France, England, and Russia. The earliest volume, by French naturalist Jules Rémy, presents a mid-nineteenth-century synthesis of botanical observation and gastronomy, detailing identification, preservation, and preparation.....
Stecyk, C.R.; Ancell, Kevin; Rodriguez, Spain; et al. Thrasher Comics. Six issues published between 1988 and 1990, documenting the convergence of skateboarding culture, punk aesthetics, and underground comics in late twentieth-century San Francisco. Produced as an extension of Thrasher Magazine, the series reflects a distinct countercultural sphere defined by anti-authoritarian.....
