Descriptive Summary
Access
Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Page (Arthur R.) collection
Dates: 1947-1960
Collection number: MS 114
Creator:
Page, Arthur R.
Collection Size:
.25 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Abstract: The Arthur R. Page collection includes photographs, baseball programs, and newspaper clippings documenting the baseball and
military career of Arthur R. Page, one of the first African American baseball players to play on integrated baseball clubs
in the United States Navy. The collection includes 24 photographs of the United State Navy Barbers Point Pointers, a baseball
club in the Hawaiian Area Inter Service Baseball League. Most of the photographs are team photographs and Page playing for
the Pointers in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are also two group photographs of the crewmen of the USS Atka, an ice
breaker ship in the United State Navy, two Hawaiian Area Inter Service Baseball League programs, and an assortment of newspapers
clippings of box scores of Barbers Point Pointers baseball games.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Access Restrictions
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish from the Arthur R. Page Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Preferred Citation
Page (Arthur R.) collection, MS 114, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processing Information
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 01/28/2014.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Arthur R. Page collection includes photographs, baseball programs, and newspaper clippings documenting the baseball and
military career of Arthur R. Page, one of the first African American baseball players to play on integrated baseball clubs
in the United States Navy. The collection includes 24 photographs of the United State Navy Barbers Point Pointers, a baseball
club in the Hawaiian Area Inter Service Baseball League. Most of the photographs are team photographs and Page playing for
the Pointers in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There are also two group photographs of the crewmen of the USS Atka, an ice
breaker ship in the United State Navy, two Hawaiian Area Inter Service Baseball League programs, and an assortment of newspapers
clippings of box scores of Barbers Point Pointers baseball games.
Arrangement
Series I. Photographs
Series II. Baseball programs
Series III. Newspaper clippings
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Navy--African Americans--History--20th century.
United States. Navy Ice breaking operations.
Baseball--Hawaii--History.
African American baseball players.
Barbers Point (Hawaii).