New York State Committee Reports – On the Shelf
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Historic New York Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Vehicles reports
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An Interview with Samantha Winslow – Library Technician
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Today’s interview is with Samantha Winslow, our newest technician in the Collection Services Division. Samantha was with us previously as a contractor and she decided to join our staff when the opportunity arose. We are certainly glad that she did! She brings with her a whole host of library and language experience. Describe your background. …
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Magna Carta: Rule of Law versus Laws of Baseball
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Let’s start out by saying that it’s Opening Day and no one can be expected to be anything but fun and frivolous on a day like today. So if we go a bit out of left field (pun intended) with this post, please excuse …
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Baseball and the Law Goes Hollywood
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With thanks to Margaret Wood for the idea and to her and Jim Martin for some of the entries below, this post is a light-hearted look at baseball and the law in film. Let’s start with movies about cheating and gambling. First we have the obvious Eight Men Out, a 1988 film about the Black Sox …
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Baseball Card Litigation: Fleer v. Topps
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If you were not aware, the Library of Congress is the place for baseball cards. Comprised of both donated collections and items deposited with the U.S. Copyright office, the Library’s collection is unparalleled (absent the elusive Honus Wagner card). You can view items from our collection in the Library’s Baseball Americana exhibition where cards are …
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Women, Baseball and the Law
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The Library of Congress’s Baseball Americana exhibit gives me something new to think about each time I visit. Most intriguing to me (well, right up there with any mentions of Pittsburgh, the Washington Nationals, Bob Dylan, and my friend Patti’s portrait) are the numerous times women are depicted in the exhibit. Two things stand out from …
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Baseball Blues: Sunday Games and the Law
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There’s nothing like a Sunday afternoon baseball game. The stands are full of families, with children carrying gloves in the hopes of snagging a foul ball or, better yet, a home run ball! But it wasn’t always this way. During the early 1900s (and up until 1933), states’ blue laws prohibited baseball games being played …
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Presidential Inaugurations Outside of Washington, D.C. – Law and Tradition
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The following is a guest post by Janice Hyde, assistant law librarian for the Law Library’s Global Legal Collections Directorate. Janice has previously contributed to this blog with posts such as: Crossing State Lines to Settle Squabbles – Pic of the Week, Archived Legal Materials from Official Gazettes Now Available Through Law.gov and A View …
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Music and the Law, Part 2
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following post is cross posted on the In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. As promised, we present Part 2 of our look into Music and the Law where we polled our staff to determine their favorite songs/musical works regarding the law. The submissions were very diverse! Here we take a look at those that fit …
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