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    Collectors and Their Topics

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    It was Friday morning and I was on my way home after playing a very minor role in the formation of the International Polar Bear Conservation Centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I made my way to the passenger lounge at the airport, sat quietly for a few minutes and thought of

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Thomas X. Casey
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Today it would be unthinkable, but in 1923 having a rodeo in Yankee Stadium, the first ballpark to be named as a stadium, seemed to be a good idea. The first, last, and only all at the same time. The award-winning, rodeo photographer Ralph P. Doubleday was there to preserve the action on film. A few souvenir books, some newspaper clippings, and postcards are all that’s left.

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