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An extensive online collection of documents, oral histories, journal articles, and more on the modern Olympics (not limited to the 1984 Los Angeles games).
From the site: "There are more than 100 oral history interviews in the 1968 U.S. Olympic Team Oral History collection. Some of the interview transcripts have been synced with their audio recordings and are currently available for reading, listening, searching, and sharing online through the links provided below. We are working to make all of the interviews in this collection accessible to the public."
"The Harry E. Winkler Photographic Collection includes more than 7,500 different boxing related images in various formats. Winkler was a longtime Los Angeles area fight figure and California correspondent for The Ring magazine from 1939 to 1953. He is best remembered, however, for his extensive collection of boxing photographs, many of which were acquired by the University Libraries of Notre Dame in 1977."
"This site is an illustrated catalog of the sixty-four signed baseballs in the Joyce Sports Research Collection at the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library."
From the University of Michigan: "The items in this exhibit are drawn from the Bentley Historical Library's collection of nearly 100 football game programs in the records of the Athletic Department and several personal manuscript collections. The library holds 9 programs from the years 1894-1999 and 54 from 1901-1924. Beginning with the 1925 season, the Bentley has a nearly complete collection of home game programs and approximately 70 percent of away game programs."
Coverage: 1865 - current. Large database with extensive full text access to journals, in addition to abstracts and indexing. Subject coverage is general and broad.
Coverage: 1800's - Provides complete, full-image access to historical articles from the Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times from 1881 and the New York Times from 1851. Also includes Wall Street Journal from 1984 to current. Need more recent articles? Use Access World News or Nexis Uni.
Full text of 270 African American Newspapers from 35+ states. Covers topics such as life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment. Based on James P. Danky's bibliography "African-American Newspapers and Periodicals."