Sports Equipment

Scope and content:

Scope and Contents

Artifacts originally created for physical activities that are often competitive. This classification includes equipment used in all forms of athletic games, including individual and team sports. Sports and their specialized equipment have proliferated over the years. Object groupings in this classification focus on th most popular sports while not attempting to be encyclopedic. Object terms seek to cover the forms that are the most familiar and most likely to be part of museum collections. If a specific term is not listed, consider using the broader "Gear" term. terms covering practice, warm-up, and exercise equipment can be found in Recreational Devices. Note: The word "Gear," employed in many of the primary object terms below, suggests a plural connotation even though Nomenclature object terms are in the sigular. The use of "Gear" as an object term (rather than as a sub-classification) provides the cataloger with terms that allow the indexing of an unlisted object or an object whose term is listed elsewhere with its associated sport.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Parent restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Parent terms of access:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

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