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November 14. Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ is published in 1851.
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November 14, 1851. A white whale is created using Soapine, on an advertising card from around 1880.
Buck O’Neill in Cuba
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Baseball card 1945
Pixies Play Football
Advertising Trade Card • 3″ x 5″ • c.1890
Carl Mays Cuban Premium
Tobacco Premium • Trinidad & Sons Tobacco Co. • Havana • 8″ x 10″ • 1920
Anarctic Stove Advertisement
Advertising Trade Card • Calvert Litho • Detroit • for Shermans Jewett, Buffalo • 3″ x 5″ • c.1890.
November 11. Rabbit Maranville is born in 1891.
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November 11, 1891. Rabbit Maranville is born. A copy of Blum’s Baseball Bulletin featuring Maranville in his Boston Braves uniform, 1914.
Southern Rights 1860 (racist)
Printed card 1860
Telephone Service in 1940
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News photograph 1940.
November 10. Jimmy Dykes is born in 1896.
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November 10, 1896. Jimmy Dykes is born. Playing for the Philadelphia Athletics, Jimmy Dykes poses for a photo in 1926.
November 9. Society of United Irishmen founded in Dublin in 1791.
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November 9, 1791. Class warfare in Ireland as depicted in an 1899 cartoon from Dublin.
November 9. Bob Gibson is born in 1935.
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November 9, 1935. Bob Gibson is born. Bob Gibson photographed in action in 1965.
Bucky Harris Music
Sheet Music Cover • for Vasco Productions • Washington, DC • 8″ x 10″ • 1925.
Chariot on a Stormy Lake
Lithographic illustration 1880
November 7. Dick Stuart is born in 1932.
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November 7, 1932. Dick Stuart is born. Baseball card of Dick Stuart, ‘Doctor Strangeglove,’ from 1959.
November 7. The Battle of Tippecanoe fought in territory of Indiana, 1791.
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November 7, 1791. Advertising trade card using the Battle of Tippecanoe as a theme, from circa 1890.
November 6. Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America, 1861.
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November 6, 1861. Cartoon of Jefferson Davis as a ass, from a Union mailing envelope, circa 1862.
November 6. Walter Johnson is born in 1887.
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November 6, 1887. Walter Johnson is born. Walter Johnson appears on the cover of Baseball Magazine, issue for July, 1923.
Woodrow Wilson Sheet Music 1912
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Sheet music cover illustration 1912
November 5. Greasy Neale is born in 1891.
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November 5, 1891. Greasy Neale is born. Greasy Neale poses for a portrait in the Cincinnati Reds dugout in 1919.
November 4. Bobby Wallace is born in 1873.
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November 4, 1873. Bobby Wallace is born. Bobby Wallace, of the St. Louis Browns, whacks one to center field in this circa 1905 action shot.
November 4. The Arno River floods the City of Florence, Italy in 1966.
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November 6, 1966. Gouache painting of ghosts in Florence, Italy by Mark Rucker, 1978.
November 3. Bank of Montreal, the first in Canada, opens in 1817.
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November 3, 1817. Stereo view of the Bank of Montreal within the largest city in Quebec, c 1860.
November 3. Bob Feller is born in 1918.
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November 3, 1918. Bob Feller is born. Bob Feller entertains a young admirer before a spring training game in the late 1940s.
November 2. First meeting of the Soviet Military Committee initiating the Russian Revolution in 1917.
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November 2, 1917. Dramatic poster celebrating the magnificent accomplishments of Comrade Lenin in the Soviet Union, circa 1970.
Johnny Van derMeer at the 1938 All-Star Game
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News photograph 1938
November 1. Vic Power is born in 1927.
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November 1, 1927. Vic Power is born. Vic Power wears a Kansas City Athletics uniform in this 1957 card photo.
November 1. At Whitehall Palace in London ‘Othello’ is first performed in 1611.
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November 1, 1611. Advertising lithographic card for the famous actor Thomas Keene playing the role of Othello, circa 1885.
October 31. Work on Mount Rushmore is complete in South Dakota in 1941.
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October 31, 1941. Work on Mount Rushmore is complete in South Dakota. Photographic postcard of Mount Rushmore under construction in the mid-1930s.
October 31. Hardie Henderson is born in 1862.
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October 31, 1862. Hardie Henderson is born. Henderson is one of four ballplayers in the tobacco card set issued by Kimball cigarettes in 1887.
October 30. Jackie Robinson signs contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945.
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October 30, 1945. Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Photo of Robinson and Dodger manager Leo Durocher in March of 1947 shaking hands…
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