Box

Folder

Series 1: CORRESPONDENCE:

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Postcards to Lou and Anne Byrd Nixdorff, 1926-27: Atlantic City
Young's million dollar pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey
New Belmont Golf & Country Club, Warwick, Bermuda
Kassan, Alaska
Odeonsplatz, Munich
Berkeley Hills from Buena Vista Park, San Francisco, Cal.
Card and newsclipping from Bill Schwarz, March 7, 1987, regarding Williamsburg Landing

Souvenir postcards: Mohawk Trail
Thousand Islands - St. Lawrence River
Virginia Beach

Series 2: DIARY:

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Louis S. Nixdorff Diary, July 10, 1928 - August 15, 1928

Series 3: PHOTOGRAPHS:

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Nixdorff's Photograph Album includes photoprints of 1928 Olympic trip, including several side trips in Europe; Chesapeake Bay ; parks in New England; and Lou's sister, Helen Owens, c.a. 1926-1927.

Travel Cards of European locations: Amsterdam, Fontaineblueau, Gotthard, Lucerne, Marken, Quebec City, Reims, Scheveningen, Versailles, Volendam.

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Photocopies of album

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Photoprint of game with Canada, Lou Nixdorff on left.
Johns Hopkins Lacrosse Team, 1928:
#1 Lou Nixdorff, first row, second from right;
#2 Lou Nixdorff second from left.

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Six photoprints

Series 4: NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS/SCRAPBOOK

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Scrapbook and copies of newspaper clippings of lacrosse games prior to and during 1928 Olympics;
Schedule of events at 1928 games;
Invitation to July 10, 1928, dinner in New York for the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team.

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News and magazine clippings: August 5, 1951; June 26, 1955; April 23, 1978;
Photogravure pictures of Hopkins-Maryland and Hopkins-Virginia games, n.d. Lou Nixdorff on right;
Undated page from an issue of the Phi Gamma Delta Magazine with photographs of five Olympic athletes, including Louis S. Nixdorff, third from left, and assistant coach "Father Bill" Schmeisser;
Undated page from Phi Gamma Delta Magazine with photographs of George Helfrich, Louis Nixdorff, and Larkin Fairinholt.

Series 5: PROGRAMS, AWARDS, AND INVITATIONS

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Program for August 5, 1928, Ninth Olympiad including list of cabin passengers on homeward-bound S.S. President Roosevelt;
Report on the ninth olympiad by the President of the American Olympic Committee, Douglas MacArthur;
Louis S. Nixdorff visa for France.

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Miscellaneous: Logo of United States Lines;
Logo of Olympic shield;
Toast to the Olympiad in Dutch;
Invitation to a dinner given by the city of Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins University for the lacrosse team, October 6, 1928.