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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.)
Oakland, CA 94612
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.
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
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Arthur R. Page Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.
Page (Arthur R.) collection, MS 114, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
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.
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.
Series I. Photographs
Series II.
Baseball
programs
Series III. Newspaper clippings
Baseball
programs
Series III. Newspaper clippings
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.
baseball
players.
Barbers Point (Hawaii).
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