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Indian Attack Die Cut
November 29, 1864. Chromolithographic die cut 1880
Hugh Duffy Manager of the White Sox
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Tobacco card 1911
Happy Johnny and Handsome Bob • Country Music
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Real photo postcard 1940
November 27. Bullet Joe Bush is born in 1892.
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November 27, 1892. Bullet Joe Bush is born. Bullet Joe pitching for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1916.
November 27. George Custer leads attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land, 1868.
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November 27, 1868. One panel of a stereo view of the Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana, where Custer met his hubristic end in 1876.
November 26. Thanksgiving Day proclaimed as national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
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November 26, 1863. And what a great holiday it is, this 1910 postcard proclaims.
November 26. Jorge Orta is born in 1950.
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November 26, 1950. Jorge Orta is born. Jorge Orta in his 1974 Chicago White Sox uniform.
November 25. Thanksgiving Day tornado outbreak ravages MidWest in 1926.
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November 25, 1926. Amusement out of fear is produced by this promotional card from about 1880.
November 25. Joe DiMaggio is born in 1914.
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November 25, 1914. Joe DiMaggio is born. Joe DiMaggio gets a hit in his 56th straight game during his run in 1939.
Ducky Medwick Diamond Stars Card
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Baseball card 1934
November 24. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell is published in 1877.
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November 24, 1877. A beautiful black horse decorates this 1930s orange crate label from Southern California.
Boss Tweed Quick Step
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Sheet music cover illustration 1870
Luis Tiant Jr of the Red Sox
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News photograph 1974.
Dick Bartell Sounding Off
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News photograph 1940
November 22. Inaugural date for the American Humane Society in 1954.
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November 22, 1954. Victorian die cut of a cute cat, long before the Humane Society existed, 1880.
Locomotives Crushed
Real photo postcard 1930
Stan Musial at Night
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News photograph 1950.
Clark Griffith the Pitcher
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News photograph 1900.
Opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame
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News photograph 1939.
Comet Over Italy 1881
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Book illustration 1881.
November 19. Roy Campanella is born in 1921.
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November 19, 1921. Roy Campanella is born. 1953 Bowman Gum Card.
Allegory of Railroad Travel
Lithographic illustration 1880
November 18. Max Manning is born in 1918.
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November 18, 1918. Max Manning is born. Political flyer for a mayoral candidate in Havana, Cuba featuring Max Manning of the Habana team.
November 17. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is named in 1950.
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November 17, 1950. The Dalai Lama meets Mao Tse Tung.
November 17. Mike Garcia is born in 1923.
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November 17, 1923. Mike Garcia is born. 1953 Baseball Gum Card.
November 16. In what is today Zimbabwe, David Livingstone is the first white person to see Victoria Falls in 1855.
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November 16, 1855. Comical trade card showing Doctor Henry Stanley in search of the explorer Livingstone, printed around 1885.
November 16. Herb Washington is born in 1951.
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November 16, 1951. Herb Washington is born. Herb Washington on the run with the Oakland Athletics in 1972.
November 15. Gus Bell is born in 1928.
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November 15, 1928. Gus Bell is born. Gus Bell with Cincinnati, circa 1958.
NBC Radio • New Headquarters
Real photo postcard 1926
Cristobal Torriente with Cienfuegos BBC
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Mounted photograph 1917
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