https://www.ishilearn.com/home daily 1.0 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f890dc6a-7a73-468e-8e4a-479af2157410/Baseball1927back-1927.jpg Home Baseball 1927: (Back Row, Left to Right) Eddie Roundy (Coach), Ralph H. Ayer ’28 (Manager), Durward S. Heal ’28, Meade J. Baldwin ’28, Pierre L. Fourcade ’28 (Asst. Manager), (Middle Row) Joseph Washington ’27, Edward P. Niziolek ’29, Andrew C. Klisik ’30. 1927. Black & white print, 9.6 x 13.8 inches. https://jstor.org/stable/community.351636. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7e120132-5929-4fc1-9eea-38697fbac5f2/1937_Misr_navigation_maritime_company.jpg Home El Nil. Creative Commons License. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1f1a043a-cd7c-49a3-a470-e95e73028da0/DotGbanner.jpg Home Detail from a print by Yoshio Makino. Darling of the Gods 1904 Commemorative Programme. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/af9be53b-a26a-4133-a1c9-15afcbf1c39c/Athletic_News_1890_03_10.png Diamond Lives Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7a42df83-538c-4038-8783-8a838e09670a/Fullers+Derby+Teams+1895.jpg Diamond Lives Carey (front row, left, sitting behind his catcher's mask). Windsor Magazine, 1895. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/461e5353-30f2-4e9c-880c-3518f2bb697d/ahs_197_full.jpg Diamond Lives Ruggles (middle row, second from left). Digital Public Library of America. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ece9b5e4-7825-4f65-ac53-2fdee53f383e/HEBT_RN_1932.png Diamond Lives Hawk-Eye Baseball Team. Image created by the British Library Board. 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American boxer Young Stribling acting as umpire at a baseball at Wembley, 19 July 1930, between the London Americans and the US Naval Academy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/90f554e9-7e34-4643-a967-427b200e38b1/Women%27s+Baseball+Catchers+Press+Photo+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call Typical representation of female baseball players in the interwar press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a6a4cafb-b093-4d79-a744-5e564ab3f2b1/Women%27s+Baseball+Catchers+Press+Photo+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call Typical representation of female baseball players in the interwar press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/74325112-3094-4ff5-9ba0-8fc93914fb3d/Army+Baseball+1942+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call Still from a Pathe newsreel showing a baseball game at Wembley, August 1942, between US and Canadian Army teams. The Canadians won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2e93a005-061e-49d0-90d1-2cb5017d91ec/Army+Baseball+1942+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call Still from a Pathe newsreel showing a baseball game at Wembley, August 1942, between US and Canadian Army teams. The Canadians won. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/838f9032-e8b9-43a0-b503-a3b2647f4336/Fire+Chiefs+1941+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call Left to right: Chicago Fire Chief Anthony Mullaney, District Officer Daniel Avall of the London Auxilliary Fire Service, and New York Fire Chief Daniel Deasy take in a game at Comiskey Park, August 1941, between the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0baead22-2e1d-434e-82f5-ca869c9969f4/Fire+Chiefs+1941+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call Left to right: Chicago Fire Chief Anthony Mullaney, District Officer Daniel Avall of the London Auxilliary Fire Service, and New York Fire Chief Daniel Deasy take in a game at Comiskey Park, August 1941, between the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d1e3966e-f63b-4019-9053-53b6411aa667/McGoldrick+1943+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call S/Sgt Thomas McGoldrick of Savanna, Illinois, assigned to the 10th Replacement Depot, with the Duchess of Kent and Colonel James A Kilian, CO of the 10th Replacement Depot, at a baseball game, September 1943, Walsall, West Midlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8e474a68-97ac-48b8-98a7-11993f0650ae/McGoldrick+1943+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Press Call S/Sgt Thomas McGoldrick of Savanna, Illinois, assigned to the 10th Replacement Depot, with the Duchess of Kent and Colonel James A Kilian, CO of the 10th Replacement Depot, at a baseball game, September 1943, Walsall, West Midlands. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-typists-factory-girls-and-clerks daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1f59dca4-f6c1-4fb5-b01e-0fdee755ad9b/IMG_20251007_110704.jpg Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks 1929 incarnation of the Hawkeye, before the team members acquired uniforms. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 11. British Library Kodak Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8f7d37ae-f3be-4ad0-88ab-c5bd12f28c82/IMG_20251007_112821.jpg Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks 1930 incarnation of the Hawkeye, now with uniforms. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 12. British Library Kodak Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9a45c5d3-1fa8-4229-8a20-08f8d4668c49/HEBT+1931+KWB_193112.jpg Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Kodak Hawk-Eye Baseball Team (HEBT), 1931. Ted Lynch is standing, front row, right. Kodak Works' Bulletin, December 1931. Image courtesy of Harrow Local History Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ece9b5e4-7825-4f65-ac53-2fdee53f383e/HEBT_RN_1932.png Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Members of the three Kodak women's baseball teams: Hawkeye, Brownies, and Japan. Reynold's Newspaper, 22 May 1932. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/888103aa-ce36-4ffc-ad5b-e369fd8379a8/LDC_070530.png Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks How the AABA usually presented women and baseball--chorus girls in men's uniforms. London Daily Chronicle, 7 May 1930. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4867bcee-27a9-4da6-9243-091376b1b73b/KodakMag_CoverMay1929.png Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Kodak Magazine, May 1929, staff magazine of the US Kodak Works. archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/585104da-6035-4fda-b49a-79723d91cc3c/94c00ff1-c47f-4e6d-aba8-c6fc3c77ac63-full.jpg Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Hawk-Eye Camera Advert. Ellis Collection of Kodakiana (1886–1923), Duke University Libraries, https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4930qj74. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/90f554e9-7e34-4643-a967-427b200e38b1/Women%27s+Baseball+Catchers+Press+Photo+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Typical press presentation of women baseball players. Press photo. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0be72f7c-a343-4b66-9fe7-02ca1c13b8a3/BradfordObserver_19370706.png Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Bradford Observer, 6 July 1937. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f239e3c9-f69f-4f67-a888-824240fa15d7/RN_180737.png Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks Reynold's Newspaper, 18 July 1937. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/701d01f6-7e73-4d50-b5d4-6013e116dce3/EMC_230737_Start.png Diamond Lives: Typists, Factory Girls, and Clerks West Ham and South Essex Mail, 23 July 1937. Image created by the British Library Board. 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The Sketch, June 26, 1901. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7a42df83-538c-4038-8783-8a838e09670a/Fullers+Derby+Teams+1895.jpg Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask 1895 London Baseball Association teams and the national champions, the Derby team. Windsor Magazine, November 1895. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/62e789f1-0353-4ec6-8eeb-2312c73581d4/CrystalPalaceBaseball1985.png Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask Base-ball at the Crystal Palace, 1895. Crystal Palace Programme. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c452ac0a-3217-4c54-8a4d-69b25c96e700/Era_19121891.png Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask Charles Carey and Frank Broom. Era, 19 December 1891. Image created by British Library Board. 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No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9d64b5d4-a8ed-481c-a185-89edb4212b6e/Knowles+Card+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask R.G. Knowles. Cigarette card. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ddfe62eb-a0d9-4195-b207-29c1b1700523/Wheary+26+Bttn+Baseball.jpg Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask Rankin Wheary. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P61\428. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a0a75b60-5139-45b7-9687-e31d95a003c7/USNavyTeam.png Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask Theodore Fierros. Photo kindly provided by Jim Leeke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a1156d42-34cc-4237-a69f-6d3cda38b81e/165-ww-127a-020a-scaled.png Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask Baseball in Hyde Park, 1918. US National Archives. 165-WW-127-20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1d51445a-55e8-4f94-b1c3-f42d65bba8aa/Baseball1927backCUT.png Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask Joseph L. Washington. Detail. Baseball 1927: Colby College. Black & white print, 9.6 x 13.8 inches. https://jstor.org/stable/community.351636. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7d9a51f0-8c6c-467a-9336-b86b04258ce5/SLO_300737headline.png Diamond Lives: Behind the Mask South London Observer, 30 July 1937. Image created by British Library Board. 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Sketch Magazine 28 January 1914. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/babb6f36-a286-4bd7-bf50-426cbb3ce497/Tokuko_Takagi_Sept_1912_magazine.jpg Staged Identities Taku Takagi. Moving Picture World Magazine, 1913. Public domain, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5a844594-5d58-4818-9d74-5c6563443050/Shoukyokusai_teniti_itiza.jpg Staged Identities Tenkatsu, Tenichi, and Tenji, Tokyo 1910. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/084455da-5411-4e99-9516-dc0dad0ca8c5/BlackSwanTrio.png Staged Identities The Black Swan Trio circa 1892. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/526e9ff6-2c30-4b46-a8bb-9a6f34205833/Chloe+Nellie+Christie+Cover.jpg Staged Identities Cover, sheet music, showing white performer of blackface minstrelsy Nellie Christie. 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Broom and Carey Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5d6d60b8-39e9-4149-b0ee-1532f638fe0d/Great+Gauze.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey The Great Gauze, African American female impersonator. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f26c4da5-8a3b-422b-ae67-7bbe595e74bf/BillyKersands.jfif Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Billy Kersands. Digital Public Library of America. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fd7ea072-c309-4f20-b61d-a794d79406a0/Carey+Marriage+Cert.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Marriage certificate of Charles Cornelious Cary [sic] and Edith Constance Emma Lewis, May 1893. Crown Copyright https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bc586dcf-1f6a-4513-89a8-0c93cf165d0c/Santa+Fe+daily+New+Mexican+1890_10_11.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Library of Congress. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/82bd04b6-a1bf-4293-ad0d-7a1710adb4ca/Wheeling+register+1881_03_10.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Library of Congress. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4be9e7fc-2028-4970-a77a-80eb0630b4b9/Maud_Cuney_Hare-222-Madame_Selika.jpg Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Marie Biggs Williams (Madame Selika). Image: Maud Cuney-Hare, ‘Negro musicians and their music’ (Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1936), p. 222. Copyright not renewed., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39696390, accessed 5 May 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ba3f8b46-ffa4-4de6-8dc0-a9478fdfd60e/BBB_Adjusted.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Digital Public Library of America. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/530650f8-0319-4ee0-a41c-892d05eee8a6/MH%26TR_1894_08_17.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6e68d8c7-7da2-428a-9a85-766002ff5df4/Carey+Death+Certificate.jpg Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Death certificate of Charles Corneluis Cary [sic], December 1901. His wife, Edith, registered the death. Crown Copyright https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7b213196-b240-4ea6-a667-7db9bc886aa2/Eastern_Post_1897_05_01.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1dea7c20-5149-4d4a-b85d-2386b07232cb/Evening+capital+1891_01_29.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Library of Congress. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bc2ade97-da9e-494d-bf63-2daff83166d2/Asheville+daily+citizen+1891_01_09.png Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Library of Congress. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6699cb44-9e0f-4e6e-bbd8-fa6d4427ef87/Broom+Death+Certificate.jpg Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Frank Broom's death certificate, July 1899. Charles Carey registered the death. Crown Copyright https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7a42df83-538c-4038-8783-8a838e09670a/Fullers+Derby+Teams+1895.jpg Staged Identities: Messrs. Broom and Carey Windsor Magazine, 1895. Carey, the Fuller's catcher, is sitting front row, left, with his catcher's mask on the ground in front of him. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-intolerance daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b7b7a5bc-eba0-4e61-a769-8ac4beaaf741/ALSterne.jpg Diamond Lives: Intolerance Abraham Lincoln Sterne, 1921. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1a43100f-ffcf-41ee-af95-bce437d88092/Crane_page33.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance Image taken from Nelson Crane's 1891 book on Baseball (see Note 8). Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/af9be53b-a26a-4133-a1c9-15afcbf1c39c/Athletic_News_1890_03_10.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance Athletic News, 10 March 1890. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/30907844-33ce-4b23-a8a7-ca3d23c78de9/Rounders_Cassell_1880s.jpg Diamond Lives: Intolerance First half of description of Rounders in early 1880s editions of Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes. Author's own collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/57a03b8d-ca10-45c7-9009-dccec7d1c214/Cassells_Rounders_1893_002-imageonline.co-merged.jpg Diamond Lives: Intolerance Full description of rounders that appeared in Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes no later than 1893 with added contribution from W.H. Hivey. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/aa789292-747b-4349-9faf-25b3cf5e28d3/Screenshot+2026-01-13+091753.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance The Bristol Game, 1867. Transcribed by the Author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4b2bbc00-33a6-4ed7-877e-6baf73ffae8e/BoysModernPlaymate_p56.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance The Boy's Modern Playmate, page 56. 1891 Edition. Archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/93726f32-f3d1-4627-b0bd-55ea68193b61/Daily_Post_1875_06_08.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance The Liverpool game. Early Rounders Scorecard, 1875. Transcribed by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ab11b879-1c95-441c-8b92-2a9eee0fe34a/Liverpool_Mercury_1895_09_02.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance English Baseball. Scorecard for the 1895 Globe Cup Final, Goodison Park, Liverpool. Transcribed by the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a0ec4eb2-8eb6-4237-9787-1b88f7fa7578/W_v_E_03072010.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance Programme, 2010 WBU International. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/318335c1-fa8d-4153-a0c7-3862bacbafb5/Deptford+Riots.png Diamond Lives: Intolerance Anti-German Riots in Deptford, Illustrated Police news, 22 October 1914. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5022ea42-6c64-4612-adbc-6a93407b0efa/Tank+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: Intolerance WWI-era postcard. Author's own collection https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-ten daily 0.75 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1a8c23eb-fd1d-4529-b3a4-23a63d640b6a/Ten+to+Ten+Cover.png Staged Identities: Ten Cover, programme for Teigeki Musical Tenichi to Tenkatsu, 1952. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bfeb4ccd-f94e-4747-b9f5-bcd6c0300421/IMG_20250527_0002.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Tenkatsu, circa 1905-1912. Programme produced to accompany Tenkatsu farewell tour, 1934. 松旭斎天勝・引退記念パンフレット (reprint). Author’s own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5a844594-5d58-4818-9d74-5c6563443050/Shoukyokusai_teniti_itiza.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Poster of the New Year's entertainment at the Shintomi-za theatre (Tokyo) in 1910. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c98ae751-ad8c-48a5-b9ca-772f78cfbe6b/IMG_20250527_0004.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Tenichi Troupe, circa 1905-1912. Programme produced to accompany Tenkatsu farewell tour, 1934. 松旭斎天勝・引退記念パンフレット (reprint). Author’s own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f4bcb8b9-569c-4fa7-8cae-132c12189ed8/IMG_20250527_0003.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Tenkatsu in her famous role as Salome circa 1915, Programme produced to accompany Tenkatsu farewell tour, 1934. 松旭斎天勝・引退記念パンフレット (reprint). Author’s own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1cf6a929-6fac-4e0f-b142-cd166dfac347/Shokyokusai+Tenkatsu+Troupe+Postcard+001.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Tenkatsu Troupe (Tenkatsu Ichiza). Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e2cbb048-245f-428d-9215-e604d06deeab/Shokyokusai_Tenkatsu_with_her_assistant.jpg Staged Identities: Ten The most famous representation of Tenkatsu as a Western-style stage magician. Postcard. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ea789a81-430c-4344-be2a-bc37788d9db5/Shokyokusai+Tenkatsu+Troupe+Programme+Cover.png Staged Identities: Ten Cover of Programme for the Tenkatsu Theatrical Troupe, 1920. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/dfcdade2-ea3c-4432-bf79-d76d7ef77094/IMG_20250527_0001.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Tenkatsu's message to her fans on her retirement. Programme produced to accompany Tenkatsu farewell tour, 1934. 松旭斎天勝・引退記念パンフレット (reprint). Author’s own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/98fcc90d-256f-49f2-b295-819945352f63/Sado+Yakko+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Ten Actress and dancer, Kawakami Sadayakko. Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4efd7314-53d1-4b6f-8910-96b19570e926/Bioscope_1928_12_12.png Staged Identities: Ten Kiyoshi Takase/Tensei, child performer with the Tenichi Troupe, later British film actor. Bioscope, 12 December 1928. No known copyright holder. Image created by British Library Board. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-health-friendship-and-baseball-part-i daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0c3ff31c-9b94-439d-82d4-f2767367dc37/SoE+team.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I Team List fo rthe South of England team for its May 1963 game against the US Navy in the Southern Baseball League. Game programme, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0906cfd9-9b01-4891-9b0b-21c2c6c53611/Fullers+Derby+Teams+1895.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I Ley's Derby team alongside players from the London Baseball Association, including the Fuller's, Remington Typewriter, and Jacob's Oil teams. Windsor Magazine, November 1895. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/deea8a38-e151-49b7-a65f-a5ad7f552155/Charles_A._Vogeler_Company_%282922693884%29.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I Advert for Jacob's Oil, Charles A Vogeler Company. University of Miami. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4df12b98-5adf-4201-b946-0d274b1c7af1/thf1112.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I Advert for Heinz Pickles. Henry Ford Library. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/64b9bf7a-b1e6-45e8-bb05-7f6062bd172b/Fairbairn+House+BT+1908+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I The 1908 Fairbairn House Baseball Team. Postcard, front, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a2d7f12f-b52e-4d43-8d20-2814a7fbb3db/Fairbairn+House+BT+1908+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I The 1908 Fairbairn House Baseball Team. Postcard, back, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/87eb74e1-2d2a-495f-9244-0749d541c37e/People_12_May_1907.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I Snapshot of the 1907 season of the British Baseball Association, showing the teams in the association's two tiers. Transcribed from The People, 12 May 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/38c46952-9cf9-452a-bdd3-61b683cdf5fe/Sunday_Star_1908_04_12.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I 1907 Championship-winning team Clapton Orient. Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.), 12 April 1908. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/dfa14729-98b8-4fc7-b4ec-fdf164a54ce0/Baseball+Cup+Cigarette+Card+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part I 1931 cigarette card showing the championship cup in more detail. This cup was the cup that was awarded to Derby in the 1890s and somehow found its way into the hands to the British Baseball Association by 1907. Its current whereabouts are unknown. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-by-kind-permission-of-colonel-ja-kilian daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d1e3966e-f63b-4019-9053-53b6411aa667/McGoldrick+1943+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: By Kind Permission of Colonel J.A. Kilian S/Sgt Thomas J. McGoldrick (1917--1963) of Savanna, Illinois, in conversation with the Duchess of Kent, Walsall, September 1943. Colonel J.A. Kilian can be seen in the foreground, right. Press photo. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8e474a68-97ac-48b8-98a7-11993f0650ae/McGoldrick+1943+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: By Kind Permission of Colonel J.A. Kilian Caption for S/Sgt Thomas J. McGoldrick (1917--1963) of Savanna, Illinois, in conversation with the Duchess of Kent, Walsall, September 1943. Colonel J.A. Kilian can be seen in the foreground, right. Press photo. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cf4911c4-e19f-4251-bedb-6fda3a9c1827/342-FH_000528.jpg Diamond Lives: By Kind Permission of Colonel J.A. Kilian The First American Baseball Game At Eton College, Buckingham County, England, 14 July 1944. (U.S. Air Force Number 66793AC). National Archives. No restrictions on use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c8c4ee30-3a48-4922-92cd-0fb85781c814/EveningDispatch_1944_09_16.png Diamond Lives: By Kind Permission of Colonel J.A. Kilian Snapshot of the 1944 Midlands Baseball League, transcribed from the Evening Dispatch, 16 September 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d0add83a-c8c3-4054-850e-0c1d7dcc162e/Im194903CV-Durex.jpg Diamond Lives: By Kind Permission of Colonel J.A. Kilian Advert for Durex Abrasives, one of the companies that had a baseball team in the Midlands League. Courtesy of Grace's Guide To British Industrial History. Creative Commons Licence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/494724d2-2be1-42bb-8d38-0a254ed62348/Im1942AFP-High.jpg Diamond Lives: By Kind Permission of Colonel J.A. Kilian Advert for High Duty Alloys (H.D.A.), one of the companies that had a baseball team in the Midlands League. Courtesy of Grace's Guide To British Industrial History. Creative Commons Licence. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-fireflies daily 0.75 2026-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/21f9a609-ede0-4291-a454-6ee404c4d632/Asakusa_Opera.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Taku Takagi (centre) starring in the Asakuka Opera production of Orpheus in the Underworld (Heaven and Hell 『天国と地獄』). Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f018366d-0963-4e4b-b8cf-abc0fe01eaec/Sketch_clipped001rs.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Sussie Wata (left) as Niji-Onna, 'The Darling of the Gods', Sketch Supplement, 28 January 1914. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/babb6f36-a286-4bd7-bf50-426cbb3ce497/Tokuko_Takagi_Sept_1912_magazine.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Taku Takagi, Moving Picture World Magazine, 1913. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/42f56e6a-51cb-4c88-bdc2-00263c98a609/LvdB+Cover.png Staged Identities: Fireflies 'Le Voile De Bonheur', on the cover of Le Film Complet, December 1923. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4d862f2a-dc96-4892-96e4-7dd53e8e1692/CM_SussieWata.png Staged Identities: Fireflies Sussie Wata as Si-Tchun in 'Le Voile de Bonheur', Le Film Complet, December 1923. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/04dfdaaf-daf4-4db5-9c3f-7da0889b27cb/SadaYacco_Graphic_1901_06_22.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Sada Yacco on 'The Geisha and the Knight', The Graphic, 22 June 1901. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d79ec451-c566-48dc-881b-bdb95ed8fbf3/MadameButterflyHuntingdon.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Poster for Madame Butterfly. The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/712f103e-09ed-4b52-a742-044f1aa6d8ce/nypl.digitalcollections.3b38c0c0-ff72-012f-7340-58d385a7bc34.001.w.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Berger, Víctor. [Mme.] Hanako. 1900. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3b38c0c0-ff72-012f-7340-58d385a7bc34. (Accessed July 5, 2025.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/71541f35-7b07-408c-95ee-dae76a911d89/Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Cover of sheet music for The Geisha. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/be2c2921-c32e-461e-b779-9caf3e05dbfc/The_Mikado.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Poster for The Mikado. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/744c55a8-444f-4226-92dd-43d590379d1c/Tsuru_Aoki_by_Albert_Witzel.jpg Staged Identities: Fireflies Witzel Studios. [Tsuru Aoki]. L.A. [Los Angeles, Calif: Witzel, n.d. California State Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f26b2aeb-e758-47a2-94b4-214903a3a981/LaBa1923_002.png Staged Identities: Fireflies Right to left: Tsuru Aoki, Shu Hou, and Sessue Hayakawa in "La bataille", 1923. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8254a228-f65e-4b20-898f-21df78ceba7f/LaBa1923_001.png Staged Identities: Fireflies "La bataille", 1923. Is the Japanese maidservant shown in this scene played by Sussie Wata? Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/42cae681-1a20-4a8f-9206-f3da44512d24/PEN_20021915.png Staged Identities: Fireflies Advertisement for 'Beauties' musical revue, featuring Sussie Wata, Portsmouth Evening News, 20 February 1915. Image courtesy of the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/24277253-a4c0-4382-9db2-f4d766cd2d63/Queen_1915_05_29.png Staged Identities: Fireflies Tamaki Miura, Queen Magazine, 29 May 1915. Image courtesy of the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-slugger daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fd1216a7-50f4-4165-bbd4-3663ef5cf816/VS_19360314.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Vancouver Sun, 14 March 1936. Image created by Google Newspaper Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/19908080-9b3e-404c-9e59-3a2cf8bba21f/VanLeagues1931.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Vancouver, BC, amateur baseball leagues, 1931, reproduced from: https://attheplate.com/wcbl/index.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f8e17894-2cc2-4634-81f9-b4ed84a7d7f4/Asahi+Stamp+400P.jpg Diamond Lives: Slugger Asahi Baseball Team, 1940, Canada Post stamp, 2019. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d99d8d5d-f781-434b-a008-7421179743b2/TSS_19310827.png Diamond Lives: Slugger The Cranstoun brothers and Asahi's Roy Yamamura in the Arrow Transfer roster, 1931. Vancouver Sunday Sun, 27 August 1931. Image courtesy of Google Newspaper Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fddfbf1a-f79c-4416-99f5-dec8b1180168/CransVanStats.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Merrick brothers' PCT stats for the Vancouver Senior City League, reproduced from: https://attheplate.com/wcbl/index.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/26cd2064-45d2-47a1-aea0-370c2964804b/WHvRW_310536.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Romford Wasps Baseball Programme, 1936. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/638e35af-3834-4b68-b655-16a2e8c33a0c/Wasps_1936_05_31.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Roster, Romford Wasps Baseball Programme, 1936. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2e54fa14-7629-4741-a81d-ddf3b69c542d/WCvH_050736.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Harringay Baseball Programme, 1936. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c96178f9-8d88-4aea-8928-b4e913be9191/WHS_130737.png Diamond Lives: Slugger West Ham Speedway Programme, 1937. Author's own collection. The baseball team shared the Custom House stadium with speedway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9a3ef178-3e51-41e6-bc27-547819e449dc/RWvP_020837.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Romford Wasps Baseball Programme, 1937. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5e6f75e6-9ae1-4e75-98f0-f1f22753627e/Wasp_1937_08_02.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Roster, Romford Wasps Baseball Programme, 1937. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a654a756-5720-4888-993c-ebb1fcb2638b/Autographs_020837_02.jpg Diamond Lives: Slugger autographs, Jake 'Poison' Asbell, Gib Hutchinson (Romford Wasps), and Jack Robbins (Pirates), 1937 London Major Baseball League season. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4afec17e-b29e-4ed7-a428-6d28c7eb5ba3/HvH_030839.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Hull baseball programme, 1939. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/92c78042-a07a-40b2-8df0-7f653042460b/Hull_1939_08_03.png Diamond Lives: Slugger Rosters and scorecard, Hull baseball programme, 1939. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-health-friendship-and-baseball-part-ii daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fd546c81-b693-4e9b-8cff-db27aba2f98a/SWWA_19070807.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II Newport and Splott US team rosters, 1907. South Wales Weekly Argus and Monmouthshire Advertiser, 7 August 1907. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0a49eb55-9a62-4897-83b8-0a6243c03ce8/SWWA_19150522.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II South Wales baseballers go to war. South Wales Weekly Argus and Monmouthshire Advertiser, 22 May 1915. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c7df1548-0155-4f9b-9bd4-596125f0c8b6/SWWA_19150508.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II Welsh regiments appeal for baseball equipment. South Wales Weekly Argus and Monmouthshire Advertiser, 8 May 1915. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ce25d42b-68bf-49ad-b57f-96d3a76dc393/SWWA_19150710.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II Baseball equipment for Welsh regiments. South Wales Weekly Argus and Monmouthshire Advertiser, 10 July 1915. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7a1d7f03-56c0-4975-a2ab-46150bded7d6/SwindonAdvertiser_19180406.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II British tommies meet American baseballers. Swindon Advertiser, 6 July 1918. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f0c3fc14-6700-4740-82d8-1c782ec47991/USS+Nero.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II USS Nero, one of the colliers of the Army transport Service that operated out of Cardiff and Barry during World War One. Photographed prior to World War I. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. NH 78128. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9cf55b6b-cbf5-42f1-b03f-8581cd45238b/IMG_20250715_0001.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part II USS Nero baseball team circa 1918. Postcard, author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-health-friendship-and-baseball-part-iii daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cebb39de-f2f7-4c3b-a54a-2e93cc6f73fc/SemiWeeklyTribune_19180329.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part III Women's Footballers, England, World War One. Semi-weekly Tribune, 29 March 1918. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/80fb36fb-431b-42e3-b52e-e4426a5f0133/WM_19230514.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part III The teams in the 1923 'Cardiff Ladies' League'. Reproduced from the Western Mail, 14 May 1923 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f8bc506b-87e2-497e-a63b-7f7a88542fd8/WM_19230716.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part III The Cardiff and District Ladies' Challenge Bowl, 1923. Results reproduced from the Western Mail, 16 June 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4b854a04-0234-4464-b605-9c603db8dfb6/SanAntonioLight_19260131.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part III The rather distorted view of the Welsh and English game presented in the US press. San Antonio Light, 31 January 1926. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ddd8513d-02d4-4bc6-9281-1de15b2b4173/SouthBendNewsTimes_19251203_Edit.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part III American baseball statistics applied to the English and Welsh game. South Bend news-times, 3 December 1925. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6ecdd6ff-0e40-4762-ac30-b4fdabbd9f4a/WM_19390612.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part III 'Cardiff American League', 1939. The American game makes a brief return to South Wales. Reproduced from Western Mail, 12 June 1939. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-health-friendship-and-baseball-part-iv daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2c2bc3a0-e038-4d07-8978-1712af0fdec1/Durex+Logo.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Durex Abrasives Logo. Company pamphlet, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c7bf21f5-a39d-4383-89a4-11f25f63ff21/DurexPlantHistoricEngland.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Durex Abrasives plant, Birmingham, England, 1934. Britain from Above: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW044602, accessed 27 July 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/eed9a750-d941-4cfe-85eb-d13d4365ec48/Durex+Pamphlet+1949.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Durex Abrasives company brochure, 1949. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/92214bd8-39f8-4e10-9675-aa7b60e24e1b/ENL_19350909.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Sid Bissett shows early promise on the national stage. Daily News (London), 9 September 1935. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ffab38a7-4447-449d-931c-523432c87b9c/Bah_18980206.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Joe Sr and Jim Biddle kitted out for the Alaskan gold prospecting trip. Birmingham age-herald (Birmingham, AL), 6 February 1898. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/628fbdac-4d44-40e6-8bb5-e35c1eac25af/Warwickshire+Ice+Hockey+1935+Postcard+002.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV 1935 Warwickshire Ice Hockey Club, featuring Sid Bissett, Basil Tennier, Jim Shannon, and Dean Gee, all of whom played baseball in the Birmingham leagues. Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1397182f-9b31-49c6-8abf-3ab8799bb5a9/BATW_Page25.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV the 1938 World Amateur Baseball Championship, staged in England in August 1938. Image from 'Baseball Around the World' (page 25). Courtesy of Springfield College. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/3b0100f6-3ef2-4f04-9d1e-f2ffaa10cd85/DNL_19380805.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Sid Bissett in the 1938 England team. Daily News (London), 5 August 1938. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fa6b29c1-46ea-42bd-bc8e-2678bd700569/BM_19390401.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Teams in the 1939 Birmingham Baseball Association leagues. Transcribed from Evening Dispatch (Birmingham), 28 April 1939. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/08167e19-13a8-4081-b698-e41d647ae50d/WDS_19460612.png Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part IV Sid Bissett back in Canada, still playing baseball. Windsor Daily Star (Windsor ON), 12 June 1946. Image courtesy of Google Newspapers Archive. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-wearing-the-flag daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bbe86371-8ab0-46be-a808-c892c0b7686f/BATW_cover.png Diamond Lives: Wearing the Flag Cover, Leslie Mann, Baseball Around the World. Courtesy of Springfield College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d9e385b6-8e26-4536-b1e5-6e08d981e405/BATW_MooresTrophy.png Diamond Lives: Wearing the Flag John Moores Trophy, Baseball Around the World. Courtesy of Springfield College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1397182f-9b31-49c6-8abf-3ab8799bb5a9/BATW_Page25.png Diamond Lives: Wearing the Flag England team and rosters for England and America, Baseball Around the World. Courtesy of Springfield College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0533767c-bd3e-4767-bb64-db5c991cb08d/AWS+1938+Lines+Scores.png Diamond Lives: Wearing the Flag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c16c40b1-8e61-4820-b172-b13e7e69c230/HvH_030839.png Diamond Lives: Wearing the Flag 1939 Hull v Halifax Programme, featuring autographs of 1938 England team players Larry Marsh and Sam(my) Hanna. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bbb0bfb6-a720-4af1-a2ec-026ac6983019/HvH_030839_back.png Diamond Lives: Wearing the Flag 1939 Hull v Halifax Programme, featuring autographs of 1938 England team captain George McNeil. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-origins daily 0.75 2025-08-02 https://www.ishilearn.com/george-mcneil daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/wearing-the-flag-the-games daily 0.75 2025-08-02 https://www.ishilearn.com/danny-wright daily 0.75 2025-09-01 https://www.ishilearn.com/sam-hanna daily 0.75 2025-08-09 https://www.ishilearn.com/frank-cadorette daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/jerry-strong daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/jack-ritchie daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/doc-holden daily 0.75 2025-09-01 https://www.ishilearn.com/ken-robinson daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/ross-kendrick daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/larry-marsh daily 0.75 2025-08-02 https://www.ishilearn.com/snooker-ruvinsky daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/sid-bissett daily 0.75 2025-08-04 https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-health-friendship-and-baseball daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-doc daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/dce2aa31-dfab-4f5e-82b6-1cea05397eff/VS_19280811_LarryHolden.png Diamond Lives: Doc Larry Holden. Vancouver Sun, 11 August 1928. Image created by Google Newspapers Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/89d91403-b1ae-4f7c-bd78-521bfe6ce821/Vancouver+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: Doc Vancouver BC, early 20th Century, postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7843101d-8320-4ed8-b5ed-cea65192af20/Vancouver+Memorial+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: Doc Japanese War Memorial, Vancouver BC, early 20th Century, postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e5b63d2d-4ea2-4123-aca7-c30f147b39af/BC+Japanese+Fishermen+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: Doc Japanese fishing boats, Vancouver BC, early 20th Century, postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bebd1117-1644-432a-9d9a-2d4b357532c3/Victoria+BC+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: Doc Victoria BC, early 20th Century, postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/38d9db5b-e3f7-49cc-8fbd-e6c5c1248b4e/VS_19280509.png Diamond Lives: Doc Vancouver Sun, 9 May 1928. Image created by Google Newspapers Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/77126634-d157-40e0-a605-a674be9a18d5/VS_19280811_LeoHolden.png Diamond Lives: Doc Vancouver Sun, 11 August 1928. Image created by Google Newspapers Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1c2c672d-aa11-4dca-9ab3-6dd66f4a17f7/VS_19320603.png Diamond Lives: Doc George Tanaka, the 'on-armed marvel', star of the Mikados and Asahis. Vancouver Sun, 3 June 1932. Image created by Google Newspapers Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6d1bf755-1612-4733-9774-96ccfa038503/VS_19320910.png Diamond Lives: Doc Vancouver Sun, 10 September 1932. Image created by Google Newspapers Archive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d9b57f8e-3d45-47be-bc3f-85faa2e2446f/NBA+Rules+1938.jpg Diamond Lives: Doc National Baseball Association Handbook. Authors's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9b4c442e-3062-473a-bb57-38e54c8081a7/Yorkshire+Baseball+League+1936+Handbook+Cover.jpg Diamond Lives: Doc Yorkshire Baseball League 1936 Official Handbook. Authors's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/abcd149c-a691-42d6-bca5-707869a7b7e0/AthleticNews_19120325.png The Spectacle Lucius Banks Jr, American football quarterback and English Rugby League threequarter. Athletic News, 25 March 1912. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e033febc-7a8c-4488-8efe-7ca6aef9c685/Olympia+Wakefield+Roller+Rink+Postcard+fixed.jpg The Spectacle Olympia Roller Skating Rink, Wakefield. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/520ab8b2-0d12-4635-9336-baf0195b6291/Frank_Craig_%281868%E2%80%931943%29_riding_a_bicycle.png The Spectacle Frank Craig. The Sphere, 26 June 1901. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/55dacb37-75fe-4ff0-afae-bdbe2a58b41d/BnW_19000602.png The Spectacle Stage Netball. Black and White magazine, 1900. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0aa80d9d-0060-40d7-bba4-387fb131a80a/SK-Eida-and-Gaby-Deslys-in-the-new-Ju-Jitsu-waltz-at-the-Gaiety.jpg The Spectacle Gaby Deslys and Suyekichi Iida, The Jujutsu Waltz, 1907. Photograph by Bassano Ltd. National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons Licence. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw206402/ https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle-strongheart daily 0.75 2025-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/abcd149c-a691-42d6-bca5-707869a7b7e0/AthleticNews_19120325.png The Spectacle: Strongheart Lucius Banks in 1912 while playing for Hunslet Rugby League Club. Athletic News, 25 March 1912. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9f5a96b9-739e-4f10-a9d3-a3a752cdad56/404-WS-6-04886-002.jpg The Spectacle: Strongheart Photograph of West Point cavalry detachment football team, 1925-1926. US National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/239940159. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/06f0ed8d-ac7e-47ae-92d0-9f234d1bb975/404-WS-6-04886-001.jpg The Spectacle: Strongheart Photograph of West Point cavalry detachment football team, 1925-1926. US National Archives, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/239940157 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cd5e99c3-fe67-4ee4-a04e-871766064af3/A_scene_from_Act_III_of__Strongheart__%28SAYRE_11991%29.jpg The Spectacle: Strongheart Scene from Act III of 'Strongheart'. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4a38467e-c9f1-429f-9331-834986e4a961/Strongheart+Postcard.jpg The Spectacle: Strongheart Robert Edeson as "Strongheart", 1905. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/96c8f151-9dc3-4323-a12e-a9ab3d01914b/College+Widow+Postcard+Front.jpg The Spectacle: Strongheart George Ade's 1904 play "College Widow". Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c6424107-095b-4cb5-9dcd-431c09d42a75/Freeman%27sJournal_18970206.png The Spectacle: Strongheart British view of American Football protective guards. Freeman's Exmouth Journal, 6 February 1898. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/92c5f575-58d0-475b-a52c-cc45ddad1e9f/MorningLeader_19101122.png The Spectacle: Strongheart American football players of the Battleship USS Michigan at Weymouth in Dorset. Morning Leader, 22 November 1910. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7351de7a-3fd8-46dc-af94-141bdbdafcaf/InvernessCourier_19180802.png The Spectacle: Strongheart Baseball and Football together, World War One. Inverness Courier 2 August 1918. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fd533850-4744-4610-b774-b9c306084d4c/PMG_19181126.png The Spectacle: Strongheart American Football in London. Pall Mall Gazette, 26 November 1918. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e307b8a3-63f8-483b-ba74-16ddf434a680/Boston+Guardian_19390422.png The Spectacle: Strongheart Lucius Banks in his Boston Police Department uniform, 1939. Boston Guardian, 22 April 1939. Image courtesy of Library of Congress. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle-all-the-worlds-on-wheels daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/62daf37b-e7ba-4bf9-a5c4-15890d6cd171/Chaplin_Rink.jpg The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Poster, The Rink, Mutual Pictures, 1916. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a52ece95-1dc8-4fd7-aaa5-b24d9db06539/SET_19100226.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Charlie Chaplin starring in Fred Karno's Rollerr Skating sketch, 1910. Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 22 February 1910. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9b92e2f9-5d21-44bb-8525-a049ecae1f31/LAHerald_19060318.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Harley Davidson, speed skater. Los Angeles Herald, 18 March 1906. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6c5d7827-8aa8-4930-9dfd-200895a97f1e/Era_19090213.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Harley Davidson, ready to race. Era, 13 February 1909. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/17bac4e0-3dbb-4d56-944b-0cbce8b5c592/LadysPictorial_18970410.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Ice Skating Carnival, Lady's Pictorial, 10 April 1897. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/733e1bf3-eacb-4550-884b-5effd434bb6d/PIP_18961212.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Mabel Davidson, Queen of the Ice. Penny Illustrated Paper, 12 December 1896. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2e50ff44-f73f-41c6-89cc-e8a7d1a50ee0/Era_19090327.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Allie Moore, speed skater. Era, 27 March 1909. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e7dfe0d0-d809-4969-85a7-fa547f2e97c5/PiB_19090821.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Nellie Donegan, 'fancy' skater and trick cyclist. Illustrated Police Budget, 21 August 1909. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cefe088a-6e6c-4342-9544-90128f9d89a4/ScottishReferee_19090719.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels 'Baby' Lillian Franks, child skater. Scottish Referee, 19 July 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4e0a5ee2-80bf-49cf-b634-37fdea056a63/To-day_19000308.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels American Roller Polo. To-day, 8 March 1900. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e5e62e8e-2fd9-4920-b63a-a13e28acd435/BH_19100215.png The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels League table, North-Western Roller Hockey League. Barrow-in-Furness Herald, 15 February 1910. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e033febc-7a8c-4488-8efe-7ca6aef9c685/Olympia+Wakefield+Roller+Rink+Postcard+fixed.jpg The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Olympia Roller Rink, Wakefield. Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7113f283-4176-40a7-b48a-e687eab1cd31/Roller+Skating+Humour+Postcard.jpg The Spectacle: All the World's on Wheels Edwardian Roller Skating Humour. Postcard, author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-iron-and-ash daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cc90c038-4945-4af2-a5aa-3a1d0b392d8f/Samuel_Sadler_MP.jpg Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Samuel Sadler 'the Francis Ley of the Middlesbrough baseball scene'. Postcard, public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0b7e380e-6d1a-40d5-a981-7ee9931dd584/SH_19120511.png Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Walter Garibaldi Roberts, organising secretary of the Cleveland and South Durham Baseball Association. Stockton Herald, 11 May 1912. Image created by the British Library Board. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/229e9326-4d6e-459c-9be4-23d13321be34/NWG_18960509.png Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash The Cleveland and South Durham Baseball Association's second tier, 1896 season. Early baseball in Britain was bedevilled by the problem of poor fielding leading to high scores. Northern Weekly Gazette. Image created by the British Library Board. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1ce740ce-95d0-4f61-9f91-227fb1666b66/NWG_18960606.png Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Sam Hawman makes his opionion known. Northern Weekly Gazette, 6 June 1896. Image created by the British Library Board. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/163a37be-0bae-49a0-ac45-d6f1debd7ef0/DM_18920831.png Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Game report, the 1892 National Championship Final. Derby Mercury, 31 August 1892. Image created by the British Library Board. Public domain. Middlesbrough's pitcher was not 'H. Harrison' but 'R.C. Harrison', an American who learned his baseball in Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e4b2d566-6651-426a-b057-b67aa9b28c18/Acklam+Ironworks+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Acklam Ironworks, Middlesbrough. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/294b56af-195f-4591-9594-a4b4bb51c363/Baseball+Fob+Front+crop.jpg Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash 1895 Cleveland and South Durham Baseball Association runner-up medal fob (?), Tom Cotton, Middlesbrough Baseball Club. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/57296823-a585-4b9b-b366-df4495911478/Baseball+Fob+Back+crop.jpg Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash 1895 Cleveland and South Durham Baseball Association runner-up medal fob (?), Tom Cotton, Middlesbrough Baseball Club. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6278ee42-112f-49f2-9598-7ca5f73fd1ff/Harrison+Supply+Company+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Harrison Supply Company, Nathan C Harrison, treasurer, letter 1917. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/06c9f6ff-b50a-442c-acab-740c4065d840/Harrison+Supply+Company+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Iron and Ash Harrison Supply Company, Nathan C Harrison, treasurer, letter 1917. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-chasing-silver daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/905083ae-f197-462c-958f-5b2a05e887cc/LanEvePost_18910512.png Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver Sketch of the Spalding English Baseball Cup. Lancashire Evening Post, 12 May 1891. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6b9b2669-03c5-4212-8ebf-6c23b3e06569/EEN_18910518.png Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver Sketch of the Spalding Scottish Baseball Cup. Edinburgh Evening News, 18 May 1891. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e5f5a03d-bb97-4540-911d-9dd8abf19b2c/champs_1892.gif Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 1892 National Championship-winning team Middlesbrough with the Spalding English and Cleveland Cups. Image courtesy of Project COBB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/47e204ee-495e-475c-b025-0c5bf915c0bc/MHaTR_18930811.png Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 18923 National Championship-winning team Thespians with the Spalding Scottish Cup. Music Hall and Theatre Review, 11 August 1893. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/054d71e7-8f29-4ae4-9737-7a9161f2c802/champs_1908.gif Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 1908 National Championship-winning team Tottenham with the Spalding Scottish Cup. Image courtesy of Project COBB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2e6def3e-b8df-4ede-9855-fe93b3a08374/champs_1897.gif Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 1897 National Championship-winning team Derby with Francis Ley and the Ley Cup. Image courtesy of Project COBB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cf8a4cb2-06c0-43c1-a49f-3ecc744d9cc1/Baseball+Cup+Cigarette+Card+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 1920s Patrreiouex Cigarettes Card, showing Ley Cup. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a2dd7f1b-9060-4d86-9179-a6d471bedd46/Baseball+Cup+Cigarette+Card+Back.jpg Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 1920s Patrreiouex Cigarettes Card, showing Ley Cup. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/596dede4-de8c-4a93-b323-b9f00ed43d27/clevelandcup.jpg Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver Recovered Spalding Cleveland Cup (altered), on the cover of the book detailing its recovery. https://www.booksinstore.co.uk/product/4183/Lost-for-a-Hundred-Years https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/20abd011-9ed3-4b97-b631-c4941cf075b3/Sunday_Star_1908_04_12.png Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver 1907 National Championship-winning team Clapton Orient with the Ley Cup. Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.), 12 April 1908. Image created by Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4506d4d0-9123-4ad7-96b9-78361aa61781/B%26W_18940630.png Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver Dewar Cup AKA Dewar Fielding Trophy, in silhouette. Black & White, 30 June 1894. Image created by British Library Board. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e5f8ec82-e2d0-4c34-915d-e44b028f0ff4/Dewar-Trophy.jpg Diamond Lives: Chasing Silver Dewar Cup AKA Dewar Fielding Trophy. Photo shared by baseballGB website. https://baseballgb.co.uk/?p=12657 https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-versions daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-rifle-nell daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/43aef10c-1147-4f35-bfca-6c705e555166/IMG_20250919_0002crop2aq11.png Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Rifle Nell Swallow (later Nell Lynch). Photo from an article in Harmsworth/London Magazine, 1901. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b11cdffd-642d-4042-96cf-1a8ed7bf32fc/IMG_20250919_0003crop.jpg Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Rifle Nell Swallow (later Nell Lynch). Photo from an article in Harmsworth/London Magazine, 1901. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5a969909-61f6-419c-b838-df91d1a5f3ff/IMG_20250919_0001.png Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Rifle Nell Swallow (later Nell Lynch). Photo from an article in Harmsworth/London Magazine, 1901. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/01a42c50-3d6b-4342-9353-6e42611dc5c2/postcard_15320_extralarge.jpg Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Annie Oakley. Image courtesy of the Digital Public Library of America. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/53852103-1a1e-43cd-a9c5-04833b3c2dc6/Lillian+Smith+BBMuseum.jfif Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Lillian Smith. Image courtesy of Buffalo Bill Museum. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4fa5cae9-1004-4c02-8ce9-0c0469e32341/NewarkAdvertiser_18890605.png Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Miami and Texas Charlie. Newark Advertiser, 5 June 1889. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7ffd30ac-1704-4234-bda4-612bc80b41d8/Era_18960111.png Staged Identities: Rifle Nell Rifle Nell and Texas Charlie. Era, 11 January 1896. Image created by British Library Board. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e36b6f9f-bf05-4b0a-b8ed-1c9fce23712b/MHaTR_19000105.png Staged Identities: Rifle Nell The Swallows (Rifle Experts) and Bowie Bill and White Squaw (Indian Knife and Tomahawk Throwing). Music Hall and Theatre Review, 5 January 1900. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/319c13f4-95f1-4233-8558-1e19a18553b4/Era_19021115.png Staged Identities: Rifle Nell The Lynchs. Era, 15 November 1902. Image created by British Library Board. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle-the-cooler daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/520ab8b2-0d12-4635-9336-baf0195b6291/Frank_Craig_%281868%E2%80%931943%29_riding_a_bicycle.png The Spectacle: The Cooler Frank Craig, The Sphere, 26 June 1901. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/84f31bda-b112-4abd-87ac-0c85e1265981/BWaMoL_18940922.png The Spectacle: The Cooler Frank Craig, before his fight with John O'Brien. Mirror of Life, 22 September 1894. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/360c8054-12f3-46f3-adbb-ade131875f42/BWaMOL_18970602.png The Spectacle: The Cooler Louisa Shannon Craig and an infant Frank Jr, Mirror of Life, 2 June 1897. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e288c3f7-f084-4ab8-b27b-feef9aa0161e/SaintPaulGlobe_18990416.png The Spectacle: The Cooler Coney Island Athletic Club boxing ring, 1899. Saint Paul Globe, 16 April 1899. Image courtesy of Library of Congress. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle-the-game-is-being-played-nightly daily 0.75 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1ba43509-fbea-49c3-a65b-edfef1e0c1f6/netballalham.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly The 'Net Ball' company. Black and White Magazine, 2 June 1900. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a933a983-a76c-48fd-8948-66a75ad2a206/IrelandsSaturdayNight_19030509.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Jerry Hart. Ireland's Saturday Night, 9 May 1903. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b01394b9-d982-4cf1-b88c-8201ecb95a6e/Windsor_Magazine_1897_Basketball.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly 'Basket ball' at Dartford College, 1897. Windsor Magazine, October 1897. Image created by archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1de7ecf4-dbe4-47c7-9bab-04f2a9204f01/LadysPictorial_19080104_002.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Women's basketball, USA, 1908. Lady's Pictorial, 4 January 1908. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4ad632a4-9e1f-446a-9bf9-a75b65fc7a5f/LadysPictorial_19080104.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Women's basketball, USA, 1908. Lady's Pictorial, 4 January 1908. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/179e97e4-f380-4c91-a2ca-78c39e20833d/KaHNaA_19010112.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly The male view of women playing sport. King and His Navy and Army Magazine, 12 January 1901. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e7ea85df-fa15-4fd2-8422-4c7d19e85667/EurekaDS_18830606.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Jerry Hart and Beatrice Leo, 1883. Eureka Daily Sketch, 6 June 1883. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/83f1c6bc-aa39-4147-a6d2-29d4a2ef8443/Alhambra+Postcard.jpg The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Alhambra, Leicester Square. Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2d5b33e7-ba8b-489f-b886-f504086cb576/Carmen+at+Alhambra+1905+Postcard.jpg The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Ballet Carmen at the Alhambra, 1905. Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/34b1114d-ef95-4466-b545-0fdf02d8a728/MHaTR_19011220.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Jerry Hart's "American Net Ball Players", Music Hall and Theatre Review, 20 December 1901. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/722960c5-d418-4cc8-989c-b2ad4a012d87/Era_19040507.png The Spectacle: The Game is Being Played Nightly Jerry Hart and Beatrice Leo, 1904. Era, 7 May 1904. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-codes-and-chronology daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-never-falter-never-flag daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ea0d1576-51d3-4308-af4e-43bcc0dd2b74/Booker_1918.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Howard E. Booker and his partner Edith Gwendoline Doulton, 1918. US Passport Application. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/46c6f1d8-5141-47b2-a4d5-439a58c68a39/Parsons_1918.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag William A. 'Billy' Parsons, 1918. US Passport Application. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/93202cac-bd44-44a5-8b9f-53a9ad32c810/NewBritain_1898Spalding.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Billy Parsons and his 1898 New Bedford Roller Polo Team. Spalding's Official Roller Polo Guide, 1898. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fd7a1b35-d428-4492-b222-ebd471807303/Merriwell+Covercrop.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Dick Merriwell's Polo Team, 1906. Dime novel cover. https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/dimenovels:341615. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c6253ba5-ac12-4a7f-8728-eaaf7881f97a/service-pnp-anrc-02000-02071v.jpg Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Garment of the A.R.C. workrooms at 36 Grosvenor Gardens showing English and American women making the last of a rush order for 300 baseball uniforms for American soldiers in camps throughout England, 1918. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/251987bd-663e-4a33-86a5-341b3622f59b/large_000000.jpg Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Anglo-American Baseball League poster. Imperial War Museum. Used with permission. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/31749 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/23af92ee-ac43-4c53-a782-e2826aa8fa7e/165-BO-0515.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Press photo, 4 July 1918 baseball game at Stamford Bridge. US National Archives. Public domain. http://catalog.archives.gov/id/16578410 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/17dfdf36-80e6-4dec-a7b2-c11f2b6c8b19/165-BO-0518.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Press photo, 4 July 1918 baseball game at Stamford Bridge. US National Archives. Public domain. http://catalog.archives.gov/id/16578420 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/04954a20-231f-449b-a074-58b93b42bc3f/King+George+V+Arlie+Latham+1918+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Press photo, 4 July 1918 baseball game at Stamford Bridge, King George V and Arlie Latham. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cec67571-ff88-4b14-8dfb-7e87994f4a19/LBAletterhead1918.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Letterhead, London Baseball Association Ltd, included in US Passport application of William A. Parsons, 1918. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4f31dec8-78f2-4991-a42e-87cc94af71b1/Spalding1918Parsons.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag Anglo-American Football League? Letter included in US Passport application of William A. Parsons, 1918. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9cac4ef2-1422-4ac0-9123-546263804982/OxfordJournal_19190528.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag University baseball, England, 1919. Oxford Journal, 28 May 1919. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b0efcade-8f22-4682-8290-2e2c3e76a46c/DailyNewsLondon_19190609.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag University baseball, England, 1919. Daily News (London), 9 June 1919. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1b9fb548-08c3-48c3-951f-002624822791/Referee_19180630.png Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag The Baseball Rag. Referee, 30 June 1918. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ef894245-1897-432c-afce-b863c3e79126/IMG_20260106_122708.jpg Diamond Lives: Never Falter, Never Flag The Baseball Rag score. British Library collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-health-friendship-and-baseball-part-v daily 0.75 2025-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/20b7ebcf-b9fa-4ad7-805a-fac8cb261e40/Kodak+Headed+paper+header.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V Kodak Limited, Wealdstone, Harrow, Middlesex. Letter. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9a13914a-de19-4bae-8688-2d8b6f5acd5d/Kodak+Hawkeye+Strap.webp Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V Kodak Hawkeye camera produced at the Harrow Works. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d5071533-061c-4c85-9701-2dc2f8ff3fc4/IMG_20251007_110653.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V One of the Kodak baseball section men's teams, 1929, before the introduction of uniforms. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 11. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/602ebd47-bd27-4546-b5f7-01187b82bc30/IMG_20251007_110704.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V The Hawkeye, 1929, before the introduction of uniforms. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 11. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/02ffad1e-d471-4a9d-a31b-98b189331b5e/IMG_20251007_112821.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V The Hawkeye, 1930. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 12. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/313e9baf-921f-485c-a8c9-5e3b97ca3aab/IMG_20251007_112752clipped.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V One of the Kodak baseball section men's teams, 1930. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 12. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b5b01695-0fcc-4019-9e3c-2b22e6c8dd89/IMG_20251007_114101c.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V One of the Kodak baseball section men's teams, 1930. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 13. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/177673b8-1dcf-4bb5-b5a4-00a3647708c9/IMG_20251007_120036.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V The 1936 Kodak men's hardball baseball team. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 18. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a6967c98-ff2a-4975-9227-bb31f132c847/IMG_20251007_121153.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V The 1938 Kodak men's hardball baseball team. Kodak Works' Bulletin, Volume 20. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7caa3791-910e-46c4-9af5-007727eeae18/Kodak+Bulletin+April+1948+Baseball.jpg Diamond Lives: Health, Friendship, and Baseball, Part V The return of the Kodak baseball section, 1948. Kodak Bulletin, April 1948. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-art daily 0.75 2026-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/3cf294d5-1fe3-4f65-81cb-3b87e0fd912d/Strebel_1923.jpg Diamond Lives: Art Art Strebel, 1923. US passport application. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a4221ffc-e270-46ac-a612-7618b79ca229/NYTribune_1920917.png Diamond Lives: Art The English view of the 1922 International Baseball League in London. New York Tribune, 17 September 1922. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-they-see-nothing-at-all daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9ab05ab6-d18b-4f1c-8908-34c09b205f42/IlPolNews_18950309.png Staged Identities: They See Nothing at All The Long Trance. Illustrated Police News, 9 March 1895. Imaged created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0270a359-01e8-4b1b-9d2e-44fec8eebf65/LPE_18931007.png Staged Identities: They See Nothing at All Charles Morritt. London and Provincial Entre'acte, 7 October 1893. Imaged created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/99a2a55b-5948-450a-ada8-fa6f8dc73d5c/Gentlewoman_18930812.png Staged Identities: They See Nothing at All Lillian Morritt, aka Ada, the wife of Charles Morritt, and a performer in her own right. Gentlewoman, 12 August 1893. Imaged created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/875666cf-5a71-41c4-89cb-ae837edca9e3/PMB_18930914.png Staged Identities: They See Nothing at All Alfred John Monson. Pall Mall Bulletin, 14 September 1893. Imaged created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b7636760-a539-47f7-9d73-a9c76ae22f4a/IPB_18940414.png Staged Identities: They See Nothing at All Edward Sweeney, aka Edward Scott. Illustrated Police Bulletin, 14 April 1894. Imaged created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/61a61bc7-a885-46f2-babc-95ef779adb78/PIP_18940414.png Staged Identities: They See Nothing at All The Missing Man illusion, featuring 'Scott' tied to the chair. Penny Illustrated Paper, 14 April 1894. Imaged created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-a-house-of-refuge daily 0.75 2025-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5afe3f99-f19d-4038-9019-bda407d7e524/p16003coll4_4292_extralarge.jpg Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Western House of Refuge, Rochester, New York. Image courtesy of the Huntington Library. Used with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c81a96cd-bbed-4404-bdc1-aa4ceb643aee/ELO_18601124.png Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Orville Parker's first featured performance in Britain, November 1860. East London Observer, 24 November 1860. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8900773e-542a-43d7-b463-5eb60e62577a/CHFox_WSU.jpg Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Charley (C.H.) Fox, Wood's Minstrels. Showing the character that Orville Pitcher would also play for over 50 years. WSU Libraries Digital Collections. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/63629646-9e41-43bf-bec9-f27f6a53e000/NYHerald_18710227.png Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Pitcher as Orville Parker, New York, 1871. New York Herald, 27 February 1871. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/dc87f093-745c-42fa-9776-8e545c004811/NYDispatch_18720303.png Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Pitcher as Orville Pitcher, New York, 1872. New York Dispatch, 3 March 1872. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e18b34b5-edce-429e-a1c9-2c22edd4edd1/SpaldingGuardian_18900906.png Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Pitcher's Merry Company. Spalding Guardian, 6 September 1890. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/29df4ffa-e785-483a-86fd-dc1f5374ff73/Pastors.jpg Staged Identities: A House of Refuge Tony Pastor's Opera House, the birthplace of vaudeville. Image created by the New York Public Library. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle-the-jujutsu-waltz daily 0.75 2026-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0aa80d9d-0060-40d7-bba4-387fb131a80a/SK-Eida-and-Gaby-Deslys-in-the-new-Ju-Jitsu-waltz-at-the-Gaiety.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Gaby Deslys and Suyekichi Iida, The Jujutsu Waltz, 1907. Photograph by Bassano Ltd. National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons Licence. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw206402/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/fec5e9e8-78c1-45f4-8618-2e3524d2a827/CaUWFR_19111001_A.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Advert for Edith Garrud's jujutsu classes, 1911. Campaign for Universal Women's Franchise Rights, 1 October 1911. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b8349f96-b951-46b7-8148-775fa3180954/MorningPost_19061012.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The New Aladdin, Gaiety Theatre, 1906. Morning Post, 12 October 1906. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d400ebab-d132-4bf6-9910-b8044c14f809/PIP_19070406.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Gaby Deslys and Suyekichi Iida (S.K. Eida), Ju-jitsu Waltz, People's Illustrated Paper, 4 April 1907. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b8c5b4d4-aa2e-4e50-b8d3-8d9be386b132/EmpireNews_19070317.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Dejo Sisters, Empire News, 17 March 1907. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f275132a-b282-4181-8842-563f877f6557/SOuthendStandard_19090715.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Kennedy Girls Ju Jitsu Dance, Southend Standard, 15 July 1909. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f0b261d4-41b0-49f1-a02e-9c9a6479782b/DPJ_19140418.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Eva May Quin, Dundee People's Journal, 18 April 1914. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/46488ca7-c170-4e11-af2e-ac8f57d1b791/Era_19111014.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Listen! Era, 14 October 1911. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7acf4b69-5ab8-4d08-9e68-d4e8eae4bb3a/Screenshot+2025-12-10+230555.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Still from Le Châtiment du Samouraï (1910), starring Udagawa (left) playing the father and Kawamura (right) playing the son. Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé. Link in the endnotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/cd83ae62-b9db-41b9-a17d-ea673f093b47/Screenshot+2025-12-10+230844.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Still from Le Châtiment du Samouraï (1910), starring Udagawa (left), now playing the bandit, and Kawamura (right), playing the son now dressed as a woman. Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé. Link in the endnotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ef452098-dc19-43aa-827e-dae98b7d6a60/Screenshot+2025-12-10+231011.png The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz Jujutsu in the film's climactic fight. Still from Le Châtiment du Samouraï (1910), starring Udagawa (left) and Kawamura (right). Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé. Link in the endnotes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/86d9121b-07e9-42b4-8dab-d03d2b2f0b2a/Ah+Namiko+Postcard+001.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The Nami-ko (Hototogisu (不如帰, the Cuckoo) story in postcard form, 1/6. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8eaa2eec-030c-4ecc-ad45-031bccaa9558/Ah+Namiko+Postcard+002.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The Nami-ko (Hototogisu (不如帰, the Cuckoo) story in postcard form, 2/6. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/72175e08-59a3-49c7-8e25-389b68e963ce/Ah+Namiko+Postcard+003.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The Nami-ko (Hototogisu (不如帰, the Cuckoo) story in postcard form, 3/6. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/128f7c15-f9da-4051-b439-86bc1b975bec/Ah+Namiko+Postcard+004ii.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The Nami-ko (Hototogisu (不如帰, the Cuckoo) story in postcard form, 4/6. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/3a6aeeab-8bc0-4d78-8361-4141e4ca7740/Ah+Namiko+Postcard+005.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The Nami-ko (Hototogisu (不如帰, the Cuckoo) story in postcard form, 5/6. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/73ebdf6f-f22d-4977-b726-efe7790156e6/Ah+Namiko+Postcard+006.jpg The Spectacle: The Jujutsu Waltz The Nami-ko (Hototogisu (不如帰, the Cuckoo) story in postcard form, 6/6. Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/the-spectacle-hullo-america daily 0.75 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d0f4e925-c55b-4d3e-803a-60f00f1c4371/Sphere_19190517_baseball.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Baseball scene, 'Hullo, America!', Sphere 17 May 1919. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d3f20ee4-072e-4634-ad96-fe23c8394ed9/LaPE_18970109.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! 'As a Dewar', baseball song, the Two Bees, London and Provincial Entre'acte, 9 January 1897. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/dcc470aa-465b-48eb-b943-57fe2445329f/Era_19101029.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Flora Blake (Flora Antoinette Sanders), Era, 29 October 1910. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8fc37553-4ee4-4461-aede-6966f84719a8/HDG_19180705.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! The Baseball Rag, Melville Gideon, Hull Daily Gazette, 5 July 1918. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/33126647-b61e-406f-b56a-7ef77fbb65a7/Melville-Gideon.jpg The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Melville Gideon, 1916, Bassano Ltd, National Portrait Gallery, https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw52024/Melville-Gideon, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ef894245-1897-432c-afce-b863c3e79126/IMG_20260106_122708.jpg The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Cover of the score of Melville Gideon's Base-Ball Rag, 1918. Copy held in the British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8c56883e-daa0-406d-b4c3-a48d8d2029b2/Screenshot+2026-01-10+203303.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Lyrics, Melville Gideon's Base-Ball Rag, transcribed from the copy held in the British LIbrary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ad85ffd8-0d46-4e82-91fa-52286d7e2c96/Screenshot+2025-11-13+093136.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Cover of Noel Coward and Doris Doris' Baseball Rag, 1919. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/66ea107e-fcdb-4001-800a-2be00d88f090/Elsie-Janis-in-Hullo-America.jpg The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Elsie Janis in ‘Hullo, America!’, National Portrait Gallery, https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw203564/Elsie-Janis-in-Hullo-America, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d138cf21-ea4d-449b-b109-3a617c3ed226/IrishInd_19181220.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Cast recording, 'Hullo, America!', Irish Independent, 2 December 1918. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/602cdbcb-46ae-40dd-addf-c48dafea5712/Screenshot+2026-02-08+100959.png The Spectacle: Hullo, America! Sheet music, The Baseball Smile, 1918, by Captain Ernest Bradley and Dorothy Deane. Image created by Library of Congress. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-paintings-in-smoke daily 0.75 2025-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/470534f5-9c6b-4c9b-9eab-18c304d25607/PIP_18761014.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Grand illusions. Penny Illustrated Paper, 14 October 1878. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5f133db5-80dc-4318-b79a-f0dcefacd760/MHTR_19030501.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Ormonde Penstone and Diane D'Anjou (Carmen Penstone). Music Hall and Theatre Review, 1 May 1903. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7c5a5fbe-81cd-469d-9ec3-87b641e78f36/EasternPost_19050408.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Ormonde Penstone and Tsaou-ngo (Carmen Penstone). Eastern Post, 8 April 1905. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c9ac2d5d-f7f0-4517-ba3f-549019a00b0f/ElginCou_18991013.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke The Ormondes and their Belle Sunflower Coterie. Elgin Courier, 13 October 1899. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5f7c841b-5dd0-4045-b44f-625f2bbffecc/MHTR_19010517.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Sigmund Neuberger, the Great Lafayette. Music Hall and Theatre Review, 17 May 1901. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5d9e8755-6182-499a-a85a-84adb9731f0e/BurnleyNews_19151106.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke William Robinson in yellowface as 'Chung Ling Soo'. Burnley News, 6 November 1915. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/90f17538-ddc3-4f42-bb9d-775045a33a5d/EveningStar_91071210.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Ormonde Penstone, San Go (Carmen Penstone), and Taro (Fukada Kametaro(?)). Evening Star, 10 December 1907. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5cdd9d22-8c79-4909-886a-3ff7e3ad91cf/PIP_19020726.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Adelaide Herrmann. Penny Illustrated Paper, 26 July 1902. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2ee57c89-8dd3-4925-85a5-0300442f4a71/BrighouseNews_19080930.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Vonetta (Etty Thompson). Brighouse News, 30 September 1908. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a4ff6393-91ba-4284-bd64-56d2a0211b8e/LnPE_19070214.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Etty Thompson's husband, Thomas Monaghan putting himself front and centre of the act's advertising. London and Provincial Entre'Acte, 14 February 1907. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5477ad80-5819-4099-aa70-5aec75da5e13/PIP_18990902.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Talma, Queen of Coins. Penny Illustrated Paper, 2 September 1899. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/be0fcd16-370d-458c-9070-a9284d89221e/RhosHerald_19271105.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke The White Mahatma Mysteries. Rhos Herald, 5 November 1927. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/63bfbf7b-b5c0-48c3-b1cf-2cd96a17b63d/BerksOxonAdv_19250911.png Staged Identities: Pictures In Smoke Penstone's Wrestling Cheese. Berks and Oxon Advertiser, 11 September 1925. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-black-heart daily 0.75 2026-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ce3219de-bca7-410d-a639-86860d5e031b/PIP_18870507.png Staged Identities: Black Heart Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, Earl's Court. Penny Illustrated Paper, 7 May 1887. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/eace6b38-25f9-4af8-b7d6-f1c221d6d63d/WorkingtonStar_19030626.png Staged Identities: Black Heart The start of Sam Gale/Cody's grift. Workington Star, 26 June 1903. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/546c9cf9-210e-438b-833b-64fd3600b92b/IPN_18880121.png Staged Identities: Black Heart Running Wolf negotiates a new pay deal with his employer, Mexican Joe Shelley. Illustrated Police Paper, 21 January 1888. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f958a7b7-e57f-4cee-a01d-dd9fe0d95539/MoL_18980622.png Staged Identities: Black Heart The 'real' Sam Cody and family. Boxing World and Mirror of Life, 22 June 1898. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6a936c0b-6759-4bf6-8168-4b1c30c73b94/IPN_19081205.png Staged Identities: Black Heart The Swadlincote Mystery. Penny Illustrated Paper, 5 December 1908. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6f578705-085c-4541-9eb2-347a07c209c9/KilmarnockHerald19171221.png Staged Identities: Black Heart Chief Raven Cody, the Femastine, and Vera Canaires. Kilmarnock Herald, 21 December 1917. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-bakeneko daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/197cb7e3-7897-4984-a713-718af159dce4/Fuji-ko+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Fuji-ko (Florence Kent). Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6ada717e-0dfe-42a0-b775-75d3d1edc9a1/Screenshot+2025-12-02+204339.png Staged Identities: Bakeneko A. B. Mitford's Tales of Old Japan, the book that introduced the tale of the Vampire Cat of Nabeshima to Western audiences. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/44589569-fc4d-43bb-948e-da0b3d021b2b/catofnabeshima.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima, Mitford's Tales of Old Japan, 1902 edition. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/264481c7-4f96-4ad8-8d19-6e1aea018404/Kuniyoshi_Ume_no_haru_gojusantsugi.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Ume no Haru Gojūsantsugi (梅初春五十三駅), Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/be2c2921-c32e-461e-b779-9caf3e05dbfc/The_Mikado.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko The Mikado, 1885. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/71541f35-7b07-408c-95ee-dae76a911d89/Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko The Geisha, 1896. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/98fcc90d-256f-49f2-b295-819945352f63/Sado+Yakko+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Sada Yacco (Sadayakko Kawakami). Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ba935fc4-4695-407e-8377-059f455bc7a7/LadiesField_19051014.png Staged Identities: Bakeneko Hanako and the other performers of the Arayama Troupe in London. Ladies' Field, 14 October 1905. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/79476d89-e27b-498c-a190-7c7c7a04acad/Hanako+1905+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Madame Hanako in London, 1905. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f5867246-4d02-452e-a077-3d5daa385a52/White+Chrysanthemum+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko The White Chrysanthemum, Criterion Theatre, 1905. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d3dca414-0f61-45b2-a112-f0d35c8e7709/EAOH+Madam+Butterfly+1906.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Henry Savage's English-language production of Madama Butterfly, 1906. Programme, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/27d4042b-12bd-4d71-8eb6-1ac437c6e3c7/watannaclipped.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Winnifred Eaton Babcock, pen name Onoto Watanna. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Onoto Watanna. Author of "Daughters of Nijo" "The Heart of Hyacinth" "A Japanese Nightingale"" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b5cc2f20-e840-0132-719e-58d385a7b928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f9ce0615-195d-42d2-a154-485fe87f4b77/wistaria.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko Onoto Watanna, The Wooing of Wistaria (1902). Image created by Project Gutenberg. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/15288e20-8d4d-455c-8ddb-22e5f09e5273/Fuji-ko+Signed+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Bakeneko autographed postcard, Fuji-ko (Florence Kent). Author's own collection. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-the-mad-man-and-the-natural daily 0.75 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/7a42df83-538c-4038-8783-8a838e09670a/Fullers+Derby+Teams+1895.jpg Diamond Lives: The Mad Man and the Natural The 1895 Derby and Fuller's teams, with other teams in the London Baseball Association, London, August 1895. Carey, the Fuller's African American catcher is front row, left. Howard Ruggles, the Fuller's pitcher, is two places to Carey's left (our right). William Hogan, the Derby pitcher, is five places to Carey's left. Windsor Magazine, November 1895. Author's own collection. The identification of Hogan is based on the known photograph of him here: https://leicestershirefootballarchive.com/1895-96-season-summary/, accessed 19 December 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5fb6182f-1f8e-435f-b6cf-07f1f4d387e2/Ruggles_clipped.png Diamond Lives: The Mad Man and the Natural Howard Ruggles, aged 18, detail from 1893 Lake View High School Baseball Team photo, Chicago Public Library, https://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ahs/id/199/rec/2. Copyright undetermined. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/461e5353-30f2-4e9c-880c-3518f2bb697d/ahs_197_full.jpg Diamond Lives: The Mad Man and the Natural 1893 Lake View High School Baseball Team photo, Chicago Public Library, https://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/ahs/id/199/rec/2. Copyright undetermined. Howard Ruggles is sitting second from the left, middle row. His younger brother, Ennis, is sitting front row, right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/909919d6-595c-44d0-957b-8fc7c377019c/DnCR_18950823.png Diamond Lives: The Mad Man and the Natural Stats from the 1895 English National Baseball Championship final, Derby and Chesterfield Reporter, 23 August 1895. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/58822c92-7251-4a87-b6da-22f945571dbf/1890+Derby+Baseball+team.png Diamond Lives: The Mad Man and the Natural The 1890 Derby Baseball Team with Francis Ley, back row, centre. Copyright unknown. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-the-alchemical-mr-gold daily 0.75 2026-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c152e3c0-d8e0-4357-bd6b-989973240327/Bought+and+Paid+For+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold A scene from 'Bought and Paid For', 1912, postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/eb393545-8656-4ec2-b203-089265f221d7/NYTribune_19120417.jpg Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold Dandy Kim In-Min AKA Worldworth Gold, as he preferred to be seen. New York Tribune, 17 April 1912. Image created by Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/90b848dd-7ae2-4dd7-8aa6-74a497f10afb/NPG-NPG_96_164-000002.jpg Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold George M. Cohan, Gold's idol and mentor. National Portrait Gallery. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/95e6d054-a5e0-4bf3-b356-3fb6fc7c6aae/New_York_Tribune_1908_01_05_Page_45.jpg Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold Advertisement for 'The Thief', starring English-born actor Kyrle Bellew, who, for a time, employed Gold, then calling himself 'Dandy Kim', as a valet. New York Tribune, 5 January 1908. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. It was while working for Bellew that Gold caught the acting bug. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/59f7bbc0-6893-4c8c-95b5-c7717acd2ead/NYTribune_19100920.jpg Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold Cast of 'Get-Rick-Quick Wallingford', featuring Gold, using the stage name Daniel Gold, in the role of 'Yosi', a Japanese valet. New York Tribune, 20 September 1910. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/19edf0c4-9b3c-49cf-8d3a-349054473808/MorningPost_19130313.png Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold Cast list, 'Bought and Paid For', London, featuring Gold, using the stage name Giro Kim, in the role of 'Oku', a Japanese valet. Morning Post, 13 March 1912. Image created by British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/592b22cc-0146-49de-b369-28ee7fa1b016/NYTribune_19130630.jpg Staged Identities: The Alchemical Mr Gold One of Gold's memorable press releases. New York Tribune, 30 June 1913. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. The US press ridiculed him for his pretensions and unique way with English, but published the releases in full. Gold was no fool. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-the-dingwall-game daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e4df80b4-2ccb-41e8-be45-89bbe39479ec/Dingwall+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Dingwall, early 20th Century. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/708cb9bd-5fd2-4660-99b8-e0e259ecf865/InvernessCourier_18700505.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game The formation of the Dingwall Base Ball Club, April 1870, Inverness Courier, 5 May 1870. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/84826296-fcfa-4ff0-8ccd-faaba37bf44f/SaturdayInvernessAdvertiser_18700507.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game The formation of the Dingwall Base Ball Club, April 1870, Saturday Inverness Advertiser, 7 May 1870. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5d6f4ff7-7e26-45f5-880b-e5cb6515b4d0/InvernessAdvertiser_18700719.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game The earliest known game of American baseball played on British soil. Inverness Advertiser, 19 July 1870. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/596936b5-f18b-4725-9963-c4d25e9ee086/WillimanticJournal_18650629.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game A teenage Andrew K. Brotchie showing some Yankee enterprise. Willimantic Journal, 29 June 1865. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/75e3026d-9bd9-4b64-8f34-e80f97e4e590/Screenshot+2026-01-05+150555.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game 1876 Ordnance Survey Map of Dingwall. National Library of Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e3a8fea1-b579-4998-9223-d63dea198d25/Screenshot+2026-01-05+150719.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game The Burgh (County) Court House, Dingwall, location of the meeting to decide the formation of the Dingwall Base Ball Club. 1876 Ordnance Survey Map of Dingwall. National Library of Scotland. This site is now occupied by the Dingwall Museum: https://www.dingwallmuseum.info/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8c4765eb-c87d-41a0-81bb-97805cf04560/Old+Court+House+Dingwall+Postcard+front.jpg Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Burgh Court House, where the Dingwall Base Ball Club was formed on 27 April 1870. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/de07b5d9-2fc8-4f67-8cac-ceafc1f2f61b/Young+Man+Dingwall+Cabinet+Card+front.jpg Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Young men of the town. Studio portrait of a Dingwall resident, c. 1890, cabinet card, photographer John Munro. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5268dad2-8583-4dc8-8869-3d58fbaaf1d5/Young+Man+Dingwall+Cabinet+Card+back.jpg Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Cabinet card c. 1890, photographer John Munro, Dingwall. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/78d42d05-debf-4570-a3a7-4f7e621cc88f/Family+Dingwall+Cabinet+Card+front.jpg Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game "Shop lads". Studio portrait of a Dingwall family c. 1870, cabinet card, photographer John Munro. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/059651d8-630e-432d-80bb-49edc710676e/Screenshot+2026-01-08+230939.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 1: the Dingwall Cricket Club ground at Pitglassie Farm. 1876 Ordnance Survey Map of Dingwall. National Library of Scotland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/acd17a05-d100-431e-98f8-5fffa8045741/Screenshot+2026-01-08+231046.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 1: the Dingwall Cricket Club ground at Pitglassie Farm. Google Maps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c31af28c-84ab-4f86-b3e9-7033119b2d0e/Screenshot+2026-01-05+161928.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 2: the lawns of Tulloch Castle. 1876 Ordnance Survey Map of Dingwall. National Library of Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9b4a58e2-de7d-4440-a820-fcd3f4b581cf/Screenshot+2026-01-05+195127.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 2: the lawns of Tulloch Castle. Google Maps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2f760dce-69e6-4e3a-822d-bd20664b9d73/Screenshot+2026-01-05+201509.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 3: the lawns of Foulis Castle. 1876 Ordnance Survey Map of Dingwall. National Library of Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/bf20feee-c6cc-405e-870f-d1ca3a4684cd/Screenshot+2026-01-05+201556.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 3: the lawns of Foulis Castle. Google Maps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/78fd0b23-5f20-4eaf-80db-7f722ed07bb6/Screenshot+2026-01-05+200710.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 4: A field close by the Railway Station. 1876 Ordnance Survey Map of Dingwall. National Library of Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1b30e07d-24ee-4a04-adf8-d97ffeb14d6e/Screenshot+2026-01-05+200443.png Diamond Lives: The Dingwall Game Site 4: A field close by the Railway Station. Google Maps. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-the-violet-ray daily 0.75 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/41da674f-5f32-42a6-8068-7547aae7fe60/Loie_Fuller.jpg Staged Identities: The Violet Ray Loïe Fuller performing the Serpentine Dance: Frederick Whitman Glasier, photographer. Image created by the Library of Congress, https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.58453. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/feb21b5e-4c51-447b-9279-828e2ec7deb4/StJamesBudget_18990127_Fuller.png Staged Identities: The Violet Ray Loïe Fuller, St James's Budget, 27 January 1899. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9ff4edcd-ca5a-4e5a-8c82-52a3121faf9d/MHaTR_18991215.png Staged Identities: The Violet Ray Miss Jenny Mills, Music Hall and Theatre Review, 15 December 1899. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ba9f2945-8435-46d6-afaf-e02b3b5220cb/fullerlights.png Staged Identities: The Violet Ray The stage lighting Loïe Fuller designed for her serpentine dance. Albert A. Hopkins and Henry Ridgely Evans, “The Skirt Dance” in “Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography” (London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1897), frontispiece. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/072cc87b-cc20-41c6-a853-92854670bc07/US518347-drawings-page-1.png Staged Identities: The Violet Ray Image from one of Loïe Fuller's patents. https://patents.google.com/patent/US518347?oq=518347 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9c90725b-665e-4e81-9b99-45d1105ea8b1/IllustratedPoliceBudget_18980827_001.png Staged Identities: The Violet Ray Florence "De Dio" Stafford Boggis. Illustrated Police Budget, 27 August 1898. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-lost-and-found daily 0.75 2026-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/efad75bd-3293-47ba-aa1d-14f040715bbe/Dreamland+Postcard.jpg Staged Identities: Lost and Found Dreamland, Melbourne, Australia, 1906. Postcard. Image created by State Library Victoria. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b8cdda1d-0c52-40c8-82d7-a59602c53355/The_Times_Recorder_1910_05_16_8.jpg Staged Identities: Lost and Found Elre and Ollie Salambo, Times Recorder, 16 May 1910. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/aa1bbacf-6daa-44a2-a256-a0dc4fd291cb/NorthernWhig_19020222.png Staged Identities: Lost and Found The Marvellous Salambos, Mdm. Olivette, and the Infant Encyclopaedia, Elre Cecilia Salambo, Northern Whig, 22 February 1902. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/39428d7e-c766-458e-b34e-514e7ba041c8/Era_19011005.png Staged Identities: Lost and Found Elre as she was shown in publicity photographs released in 1901, the year she debuted. Era, 5 October 1910. Image created by archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1c10304e-040a-42a9-8399-d6f726c947d5/Screenshot+2026-02-02+091502.png Staged Identities: Lost and Found Elre and Erle Salambo, Tusla World, 16 March 1913. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/staged-identities-un-cuore-nero daily 0.75 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/83efa70b-22c7-4556-8a1b-032cd7a89e9f/PeoplesJournal_18860220.png Staged Identities: Un Cuore Nero David Nero. People's Journal, 22 February 1886. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/58fef433-8465-44d3-97f8-34494cab483d/NuneatonObs_18880629.png Staged Identities: Un Cuore Nero The Anglo-African Choir. Nuneaton Observer, 29 June 1888. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d61ec369-043d-4747-82b6-16e958f773e6/Hunts+County+News+18911219.png Staged Identities: Un Cuore Nero Umbetiqua Sanghanghamo and Miss Ada Morris. Hunts County News, 19 December 1891. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/441671f2-ed0a-4fd6-ac69-e87196bc1a9b/SedaliaTimes_19010907.png Staged Identities: Un Cuore Nero Sedalia Times, 7 September 1901. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-the-transit-of-venus daily 0.75 2026-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0b480fd5-2e4b-4ae8-a037-91ebe80f05e1/Screenshot+2026-02-20+092536.png Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus The 1882 Transit of Venus. US Naval Observatory. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/252d7354-d873-4605-b9ad-91f293cc7893/e8ba6a32-7dfa-4bd5-aaa4-23ee635b7355-A22835.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus H.M.S. Scout at Esquimalt. City of Vancouver Archives. https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/h-m-s-scout. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/8cb20142-b23f-4a80-9ff0-2c485a724582/BroadArrow_18731101.png Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus The Scout Nine at Coquimbo. Broad Arrow, 1 November 1873. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/c220a36d-58fc-4aa7-a448-390a36d9b519/Coquimbo+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus Coquimbo, Chile. Postcard, author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2e8f8d66-124d-4724-98c5-6c1e4ae42e81/d24df326-4045-4e54-929e-0f1b638f16c6-A33827.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus Esquimalt, British Columbia. City of Vancouver Archives. https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/esquimalt-harbour. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/abf22e1f-e7bb-469f-91f9-3ad1facacc61/CHS-402.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus Sailing vessels at wharf in Honolulu harbor, ca.1892-1907. Digital Public Library of America. Public Domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1a43d19c-780d-408b-be32-15d362db0d52/BaseballInsular01.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Baseball in our insular possessions. Porto Rico -- Philippines -- Hawaii" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 20, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/704bd8c0-c5f6-012f-18e2-58d385a7bc34 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a8a06bb0-28b5-4321-b293-c6b9b3993bce/The_Pacific_Commercial_Advertiser_1867_08_31_Page_3.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus The Pioneers and the Pacifics. Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu, HW), 31 August 1867. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4195f149-648f-459d-915b-fb6eb8d7110b/The_Pacific_Commercial_Advertiser_1867_08_03_Page_3.jpg Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus Cricket. Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu, HW), 3 August 1867. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/600f98b4-10d9-48ec-944c-f6afe9bc5124/Screenshot+2026-02-19+171458.png Diamond Lives: The Transit of Venus William H. Cornwell III, in England, 1894. Knowles and Morton, Baseball, George Routledge and Sons, 1896. Public domain. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-a-species-of-cricket daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a0ef29a1-e9d8-4375-8088-a5cde8bf1bcb/Prince-Alfred-Duke-of-Edinburgh-and-Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha.jpg Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 1867. National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d8f856f3-c2ec-4ba1-a6c2-25ee7e351554/InvernessCourier_18630709.png Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket A species of cricket. Inverness Courier, 9 July 1863. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/4a9310af-7a4a-47c4-837a-0ada86c54722/The_Courier_and_Argus_1863_07_08_4_001.jpg Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket "a game at bat and ball". Courier and Argus, 8 July 1863. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/aa74cb66-4b4f-43dd-8692-12e4f3621785/Kessock+Inn+Postcard.jpg Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket North Kessock and the Black Isle, with the Kessock Inn background, left. Postcard. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a73597cb-e60e-46c7-bea1-86940a45d1a0/KessockInn_1872OSMap.png Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket Within a grass field at the side of Kessock Inn. 1873 Ordnance Survey Map. Accessed at the National Library of Scotland: https://maps.nls.uk/os/. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f7932057-3ed7-4fc4-90b7-841d8a02e820/KessockInn_GoogleEarth.png Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket North Kessock ferry landing today (2026). Google Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/95caca4f-76ab-463c-acb9-0574b32dc480/SLNSW_479645_142_HMS_Galatea_in_Farm_Cove.jpg Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket HMS "Galatea" in Farm Cove; Government House to the left, c. 1870, [attributed Charles Pickering], from albumen print published in "A collection of photographs of buildings and views in New South Wales," Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1873, State Library of New South Wales, PXD 557/vol. 3, 55. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/1dce02e8-86b7-46c2-a97d-100785f9cf56/riodpla002.jpg Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket Rio De Janeiro, 1866. Public Digital Library of America. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/b6996be2-3170-47a7-8542-cfcb103773a2/service-pnp-cph-3c20000-3c26000-3c26100-3c26176v.jpg Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket The Oneida Disaster, 1870. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/6e31a246-bef4-4ca1-a9bf-7980cd3f1a73/GravesendReporter_18710617.png Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket A Game of Base Ball, Gravesend Reporter, 17 June 1871. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/3b0a7177-56f9-4864-9594-81fc8853e05f/AthleticNews_18750612.png Diamond Lives: A Species of Cricket The Duke of Edinburgh Rounder and Quoit Club. Athletic News, 12 June 1875. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-london-americans daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/f4b0fada-6e45-47ec-bfe2-ac4bf833419f/Screenshot+2026-03-13+084031.png Diamond Lives: London Americans Fleet Street, circa 1860. Smith and son, [London large scale plan], 1861. https://maps.nls.uk/joins/11932.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/d5c942ed-5dfd-4bcd-b426-ea45f904dcb2/Screenshot+2026-03-13+204442.png Diamond Lives: London Americans Banner, London American. British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0f8dae72-f68e-4cf1-9f68-6ad8bc830fe3/Screenshot+2026-03-11+211255.png Diamond Lives: London Americans First edition of The Index, 1 May 1862, archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/be6fd1f2-d4ba-4ff2-bdfe-9a912c200f83/Tallis_Fleet+Street.png Diamond Lives: London Americans The offices of the London American (100 Fleet Street) and the Index (102 Fleet Street). John Tallis, London Street Views, 1838. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/876be0b6-29eb-4a94-9149-afb8e25c6954/Sun_Journal_1917_09_29_10.jpg Diamond Lives: London Americans John Adams Knight, publisher of the London American, circa 1862. Lewiston Sun-Journal 29 September 1917. Image created by Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/67a625a5-693c-44fa-81df-ded30859fca0/LondonAmerican_18600502.jpg Diamond Lives: London Americans John Adams Knight's signature on the copy of the first issue of the London American held by the British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/9e624b71-e2a0-4881-9a2d-406d2670eb5a/LondonAmerican_18600912.jpg Diamond Lives: London Americans Cricket and baseball coverage, London American, 12 September 1860. Copy held by the British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/af29c17f-dcfe-4900-bc7e-bd0151b97933/Henry-Hotze-946x1300_UofAla.webp Diamond Lives: London Americans Henry Hotze, editor and publisher of the Index. Image created by University of Alabama. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/e53383e1-25f4-41d0-8d9b-e11c7aac0f37/NPG-NPG_81_M1527_Train_PD.jpg Diamond Lives: London Americans George Francis Train, American eccentric. National Portrait Gallery. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/21ccfde4-4cef-4b4f-bc4d-81b688602f99/LonAm_Map_BostonPubLib.jpg Diamond Lives: London Americans Map of the seat of the war, London American. Image created by the Library of Congress. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/3465e1bb-b405-4561-a737-f9bd2231545f/JerseyInd_18620607.png Diamond Lives: London Americans Stars and Stripes. Advertisement for the London American, Jersey Independent, 7 June 1862. Image created by the British Library Board. No known copyright holder. https://www.ishilearn.com/diamond-lives-the-base-ballists-a-reverie daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/0f1d4fe5-e510-42f2-8517-500a589f79c0/Oxford+Gentlemen+Cabinet+Card+Front.jpg Diamond Lives: The Base Ballists: A Reverie A studio portrait of an Oxbridge Eleven. Nineteenth-century cabinet card by Hills and Saunders of Oxford and Cambridge. Author's own collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/74e8a21a-564a-46ec-b244-a621c9bfb530/HarpersWeekly_18740905.png Diamond Lives: The Base Ballists: A Reverie The American base ball players In England, Harper's Weekly, 5 September 1874. Image created by archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/2c70cc59-2cc5-4e47-9763-db3dc1c36e8f/HarpersWeekly_18740912.png Diamond Lives: The Base Ballists: A Reverie The American base ball players In England, Harper's Weekly, 12 September 1874. Image created by archive.org. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/a7603e54-36a3-4f42-9362-cd639159d79f/Screenshot+2026-03-24+214451.png Diamond Lives: The Base Ballists: A Reverie The entry for James Taylor Soutter, Alumni Oxonienses. Image created by Welcome Trust. Public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/5a848ced-f5bf-4783-99e9-e65b1ff6dcf0/Screenshot+2026-03-27+150641.png Diamond Lives: The Base Ballists: A Reverie The entries for the Kane brothers, A Cambridge Alumni Database (ACAD). University of Cambridge Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/674e1985476d7307b8b5f633/ade20aac-99e5-45d4-9cca-273faea913d9/Screenshot+2026-03-27+151008.png Diamond Lives: The Base Ballists: A Reverie Base Base Match, Lord's Cricket Ground, 1 April 1870. A fantasy.