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August 15. Panama Canal opens in 1914.
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August 15, 1914. Panama Canal, connecting the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean opens for business. Promotional folder with images and information about the project includes an elaborate map.
Charlie Comiskey Advertises
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Baseball Guide Back Cover • Reach Sporting Goods Co. Philadelphia • 5″ x 7″ • 1887
August 14. Paul Dean is born in 1912.
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August 14, 1912. Daffy Dean is born. Photographed, as usual, with his famous brother Dizzy, Paul, who was Daffy, is on the left.
August 14. Start of the Tillamook Burn, a forest fire destroying 1/4 million acres in 1933.
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August 14, 1933. Loggers in Oregon start the Tillamook Burn, a forest fire destroying 1/4 million acres. Photo postcard of group of workers in the tall forests of western Oregon, from…
August 13. Sid Gordon is born in 1917.
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August 13, 1927. Sid Gordon is born. Sid Gordon’s baseball card as issued by the Bowman Gum Company in 1953.
August 13. Mock battle secures Manila from rebel Filipinos in 1898.
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August 13, 1898. Mock battle between U.S. and Spanish forces secures Manila from rebel Filipinos. Propagandistic postcard with a soldier in a Spanish-American War uniform waving giant flag.
King Philip Cigar Box Label
Cigar Box Label • Heppenheimer & Maurer Litho • NYC • 8″ x 5″ • c.1875
August 11. Babe Ruth hits home run number 500, the first to do so, in 1929.
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August 11, 1929. Babe Ruth hits home run number 500, the first to accomplish the feat. Sheet music for a Babe Ruth song, published in 1919.
August 11. Bobo Newsome is born in 1907.
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August 11, 1907. Bobo Newsome is born. Newsome smiles in his Washington Senators uniform in 1943.
August 10. Willie Wells is born in 1905.
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August 10, 1905. Willie Wells is born. Wells from a group shot while with the Memphis Red Sox in 1948.
President Truman Opens the Season
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News photograph 1949
August 9. Claude Osteen is born in 1939.
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August 9, 1939. Claude Osteen is born. Osteen is the subject of a Los Angeles Dodger postcard issued in the late 1960s.
August 9. Battle of Cedar Mountain, Stonewall Jackson defeats Union Army in 1862.
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August 9, 1862. In the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Stonewall Jackson defeats Union Army. Tobacco crate label featuring Stonewall Jackson’s military image.
August 8. Cupid Childs is born in 1867.
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August 8, 1867. Cupid Childs is born. Childs appears on a Just So Tobacco cigarette card from 1893.
August 8. In New York City Ulysses S. Grant’s funeral attracts 1.5 million, in 1885.
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August 8, 1885. In New York City Ulysses S. Grant’s funeral attracts 1.5 million citizens. Cigar box label that satirizes Ulysses S Grant at a masquerade ball, printed circa 1875
August 7. In the Battle of Boyacá Simon Bolivar defeats Spain in 1819.
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August 7, 1819, In the Battle of Boyacá Simon Bolivar defeats Spain. Cigar box label with the famous portrait of Bolivar, the conquering hero.
August 7. Bill McKechnie is born in 1886.
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August 7, 1886. Bill McKechnie is born. Cincinnati Reds manager Bill McKechnie sits in the dugout during the 1940 season.
August 6. Sam Mertes is born in 1872.
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August 6, 1872. Sam Mertes is born. Photo of Mertes wearing a New York Giants uniform in 1905.
August 6. All foreign assets nationalized by the new Cuban government in 1960.
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August 6, 1960. All foreign assets nationalized by the new Cuban government. Fidel Castro addresses a huge crowd in Havana after the successful revolution toppling the Batista regime.
Bernie Carbo and the Salem Witch
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News photograph 1975
August 5. Harry Houdini performs underwater escape in 1926.
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August 5, 1926. Harry Houdini performs underwater escape, after 91 minutes below the surface. In another stunt, Houdini plans his escape from being chained to locomotive wheels.
August 4. Luke Easter is born in 1915.
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August 4, 1915. Luke Easter is born. Luke Easter’s baseball card from the Bowman Gum Company in 1953.
General George Custer Cotton Label
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Produce Crate Label • 6″ x 8″ • c.1880.
Judge Landis Most Severe
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News photograph 1921
Harry Heilmann Baseball Magazine
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Magazine Cover • Baseball Magazine Co. • NYC • 10″ x 12″ • 1922
August 2. Red Ames is born in 1882.
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August 2, 1882. Red Ames is born. Colgan’s Chip candy card of Red Ames of the New York Giants.
August 2. Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President on the death of Warren Harding in 1923.
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August 2, 1923. Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President on the death of Warren Harding. Photograph shows President Coolidge colluding with Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, circa 1925.
August 1. Frank Grant is born in 1865.
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August 1, 1865. Frank Grant is born. Frank Grant poses in this team shot with the Buffalo Bisons.
August 1. Colorado admitted as America’s 38th State in 1876.
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August 1, 1876. Colorado admitted as America’s 38th State. Advertising card promotes Arbuckle’s Coffee with card for the State of Colorado, printed circa 1895.
July 31. Larry Doyle is born in 1886.
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July 31, 1886. Larry Doyle is born. Photograph of Doyle with the New York Giants.
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