{"id":133,"date":"2009-04-11T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-04-11T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T14:28:04","slug":"resources-for-the-sporting-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/resources-for-the-sporting-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for the sporting male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provlib.org\/\">Providence Public Library<\/a> a few days ago, I ran across a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/173509415\"><em>The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York<\/em><\/a>. The book gives excerpts and essays from a cache of recently rediscovered newspapers for the &#8220;sporting male.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seeing the book reminded me of one of my favorite online resources, the digitized version of <em>The National Police Gazette<\/em>. Yale has the entire run (1845\u20131906) of this newspaper, keyword-searchable through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proquest.com\/en-US\/catalogs\/databases\/detail\/pq-hist-news.shtml\">ProQuest Historical Newspapers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135\" title=\"police-gazette\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/police-gazette-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration from the National Police Gazette, October 5, 1901\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration from the National Police Gazette, October 5, 1901<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <em>Police Gazette<\/em> is really <em>not<\/em> a police gazette; it more often covers burlesque shows, boxing, violent crime, and other bawdiness. One particular specialty is engravings and photographs of burlesque performers.<\/p>\n<p>I always find bawdy humor from bygone ages really entertaining. Plus, I actually did find the <em>Police Gazette<\/em> useful for a genuine academic purpose, a paper about boxing.<\/p>\n<p>If your library doesn&#8217;t subscribe to the digital version of the <em>National Police Gazette<\/em> (outrageous!), you can still get a taste of it in a fun book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/524435&amp;referer=brief_results\"><em>The Police Gazette<\/em><\/a>, edited by Gene Smith and Jayne Barry Smith. Introduction by Tom Wolfe! And if your library doesn&#8217;t have <em>that<\/em>, well, what kind of library is it, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Providence Public Library a few days ago, I ran across a copy of The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York. The book gives excerpts and essays from a cache of recently rediscovered newspapers for the &#8220;sporting male.&#8221; Seeing the book reminded me of one of my favorite online resources, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[39,38,40],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections","tag-archive","tag-bawdy","tag-digital-resource"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}