Signature collections inside another museum: the league archive — in two houses — and this ground's own papers

LEG 27 · ITEM 5 · RUN B #132

The county's signature collection-inside-a-museum is the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League archive, and its custody is split, which is exactly why it must be printed whole: The History Museum in South Bend serves as the national repository for the AAGPBL — so the South Bend Tribune, reporting the museum's April 2026 league celebration with the South Bend Cubs — with a collection of over 3,500 items, uniforms, equipment, photographs and memorabilia, and a permanent exhibit dedicated to the league and to the South Bend Blue Sox, the city's own team. But the league's paper archive also stands elsewhere under the same town's sky: the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries hold the All-American Girls Baseball League Collection (MSSP 0014, 1943–2000), manuscript material, photographs and printed matter including the nine loose-leaf notebooks in which Blue Sox executive Harold T. Dailey compiled a documentary history of the league. Museum objects in one house, manuscripts in another: any single-house telling of "the league archive" understates the record, and the two custodies are printed together here at boundary size.

This ground's own signature holding is smaller and sits in the same museum: the manuscripts and town materials Sources places in The History Museum's keeping — above all J. Harold Kiracofe's "The History of Osceola, Indiana" (internally dated January 1968), the town history text on which much of this build rests, held at the museum with the town page it published in 2014. Osceola has no collection seated in Osceola that any catalogue reached names; its archive, like its museum (item 2), is in South Bend.

Verdict, item 5 — DUG (split custody printed whole; this ground's holding named).

Sources: South Bend Tribune, 15 Apr 2026 (museum as national repository; 3,500+ items; permanent exhibit); Hesburgh Libraries ArchivesSpace, All-American Girls Baseball League Collection, MSSP 0014 (archivesspace.library.nd.edu); Sources. Searches run 11 Nov 2026.