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The Essence of Baseball Explained for Non-Sportsmen
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Illustration of a baseball diamond in a short primer on the game of baseball published in the summer of 1909 in the Yiddish-daily Forverts (Forward). Some of the words in the picture are…

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Sports, Migration, Assimilation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Reportage, Journalism
Print of circle with diamond inside, and Yiddish text across the top.
The History of Borsszem Janko (Johnny Peppercorn)
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Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.

Date:

1887

Subjects:

Humor, Writing, Cities, Class, Artists

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Journalism
Print of men sitting around a table in room with central column.