Overview
Photograph album featuring black and white photographs of the Seattle Skylarks, a women's fast pitch team in the National Softball Congress.
Dates
- Creation: 1947
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the photographs in the Seattle Sklarks photograph album may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.21 linear feet (1/2 file box)Photograph album featuring black and white photographs of the Seattle Skylarks, a women's fast pitch team in the National Softball Congress. Photographs document team practices and games as well as team members traveling to games in Vancouver, Canada, and Bremerton, Washington. Travel photographs show team members in automobiles, hotel rooms, and sightseeing. Photographs are captioned, possibly by Skylarks outfielder Frankie L. Milligan. Identified players include Alice Jorgenson (identified as "Jorg"), Isobel Prentice (identified as "Sis"), and Shirley Soggie (identified as "Shirb"). Loose photographs include two team photographs and a hand-colored image of an unidentified women's basketball team.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 2022-M21
The Seattle Skylarks photograph album was acquired from Langdon Manor Books in February 2023.
Processing Information
Processed: August 2023
By: Johanna Carll
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Title
- Seattle Skylarks Photograph album, 1947: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Alice Jeannette Ward Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch02232
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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