b0609 Miriam Murphy, Women's Softball Collection, ca. 1901-1991 A Register of the Collection at the Utah State Historical Society Utah State Historical Society 1999 Finding aid encode in EAD 1.0 by Craig Ringgenberg using XMetaL 1.0, 1999. Finding aid written in English.

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Summary Description Utah State Historical Society Mss B 609 Murphy, Miriam, collector. Miriam Murphy, Women's Softball Collection, ca. 1901-1991 .5 lin. ft. (1 box) Collected for a paper presented at the Utah State Historical Society annual meeting in Park City, Utah 12 July 1991. Contains newspaper articles, scrapbooks mainly for the Utah Shamrocks. Topics: Softball for women. Softball players -- Utah. Organizations: Utah Shamrocks (Women's softball team: Utah). Background Background Note

Collected for a paper presented at the Utah State Historical Society annual meeting in Park City, Utah 12 July 1991.

 Scope and Content

Contains newspaper articles, scrapbooks mainly for the Utah Shamrocks.

Administrative Information Preferred Citation:

Miriam Murphy, Women's Softball Collection, ca. 1901-1991, Utah State Historical Society.

Acquisition Information:

Gift of Miriam Murphy

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The Miriam Murphy, Women's Softball Collection is the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding specific use of this collection.

Processing Information: Collection processed by Linda Thatcher Finding aid compiled by Linda Thatcher Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000 Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 1999 (RLIN ID: UTSX99-A77). Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000. Separations

Photographs have been removed to Mss C 609.

 Container list Box Folder Contents 1 1 "Bloomer Girls Play Baseball" Deseret News, 28 May 1901 [photocopy] 1 2 Newspaper clippings donated by Jerry Smith [photocopy] 1 3 Miscellaneous material dealing with women's softball, donated by Donna Poll [photocopy] 1 4 Miscellaneous material dealing with women's softball, donated by Faye Tazoi [photocopy] 1 5 Newspaper articles donated by Joy Peterson [photocopy] 1 6 Scrapbook donated by Mildred Blackham Lavender [photocopy] 1 7 Shamrocks, 1972, donated by Joy Peterson [photocopy] 1 8 Shamrocks Home Schedule, 1973, donated by Joy Peterson [photocopy] 1 9 Shamrocks, 1975, donated by Joy Peterson [photocopy] 1 10 Notes for Shamrock paper compiled by Miriam Murphy, 1991 1 11 Utah Shamrocks, 1991 by Miriam Murphy 1 12 "'Girls in Green' Fashioned a Golden Softball Era" Deseret News, 11 July 1991 1 13 "Woman of Steal" Sports Illustrated, 15 April 1991