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Former Curatorial Intern Angela Pastorelli-Sosa discusses the "Fight of the Century"—a boxing match held in 1910 between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson that stoked racial tensions across the United States.
Angela Pastorelli-Sosa
September 21, 2018
Assistant Curator Allison Rudnick provides an overview of On the Ropes, the first exhibition of the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection to showcase boxing cards, which feature some of the most celebrated boxers of the last two centuries.
Allison Rudnick
August 14, 2018
Collections Management Associate Liz Zanis takes a look at early Reward of Merit cards, a large selection of which are part of The Met's Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of Printed Ephemera.
Liz Zanis
June 23, 2016
Collections Management Assistant Rebekah Burgess Abramovich profiles Omene, a notorious figure in late 19th-century American dance, whose portrait is included on 13 tobacco cards in The Met's Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of Printed Ephemera.
Rebekah Burgess Abramovich
May 4, 2016
Masha Turchinsky, senior manager for Digital Learning and senior media producer, shares a part of The Met collection that's sure to delight sports fans.
Masha Turchinsky
March 30, 2016
Assistant Curator Allison Rudnick highlights the World's Inventors series of souvenir cards produced by Allen & Ginter Cigarettes during the 1880s.
Allison Rudnick
November 2, 2015
Collections Management Assistant Erin Florence explores the baseball team cards produced by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company in 1913.
Erin Florence
October 20, 2015
To usher in the beginning of playoff season, Assistant Administrator for Marketing and External Relations Christopher Gorman discusses some of his favorite baseball cards from The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of Printed Ephemera.
Christopher Gorman
October 5, 2015
Associate Curator Freyda Spira announces a new section of the Met's website dedicated to the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of Printed Ephemera.
Freyda Spira
September 24, 2015
Collections Management Coordinator Rebekah Burgess discusses a series of tobacco cards featuring Daisy Murdoch, a burlesque actress of the 1880s.
Rebekah Burgess Abramovich
July 29, 2014