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Athletic clubs

Here are entered works on organizations in which members play sports and often pay a fee to the organization to use their athletic facilities and equipment, e.g., tennis courts, sailboats, etc. Works on groups of players who compete together in a team sport, or groups of players who compete under an organizational name, are entered under Sports teams.

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• Clubs
• Sports

• Athletic clubs -- Juvenile fiction
• Rowing clubs

• Sports clubs
• Sports -- Clubs

• Frank Merriwell's Champions: or, All in the Game (New York: Street and Smith Corp., c1904), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)

• All Aboard: or, Life on the Lake, by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Psychology of the Club: A Study in Social Psychology (dissertation reprinted from The Pedagogical Seminary, Sept. 1911), by Louis D. Hartson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Club Life of Old London: With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1866), by John Timbs
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (PDF at amazonaws.com)

• The Joiners: A Sociological Description of Voluntary Association Membership in the United States (New York: Bedminster Press, 1962), by Murray Hausknecht (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2010), by Jim Collins (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2010), by Jim Collins (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Phantom Club Papers (Milwaukee: Printed for the Club, 1906) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Phantom Club Papers: Second Series (Milwaukee: Printed for the Club, 1910), by Wis.) Phantom Club (Milwaukee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phantom Club Papers: Third Series (Milwaukee: Printed for the Club, 1914) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Four-H Trail (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1926), by W. H. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Four-H Trail (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1926), by W. H. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Five H's (c1950), by Roy E. Hranicky and Lois Belle White (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Five H's (c1950), by Roy E. Hranicky and Lois Belle White (page images at HathiTrust)

• Golfers' Green Book, 1901: Containing Complete Details of the Golf Clubs Drawing Membership From Chicago, with a History of Golf Since Its Introduction to the West (Chicago: National Golf Bureau, c1901), ed. by Joseph E. G. Ryan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Practicing the Ways of Democracy Through the Girls' League (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1943), by Sarah Martha Sturtevant and Ethel Rosenberry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Four-H Trail (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1926), by W. H. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach: or, In Quest of the Runaways (1911), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls on the Coast: or, The Waif From the Sea (Cleveland: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1913), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls Through New England: or, Held by the Gypsies (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1911), by Margaret Penrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor Girls Through New England: or, Held by the Gypsies (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1911), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text)
• The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay: or, The Secret of the Red Oar (New York: Goldsmith Pub. Co., c1914), by Margaret Penrose (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Histoire des Jacobins depuis 1789 jusqu'à Ce jour: ou, État de l'Europe en Novembre 1820 (in French; Paris: Librairie de Gide fils, 1820), by Vincent Lombard de Langres
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Histoire des Jacobins depuis 1789 jusqu'à Ce jour: ou, État de l'Europe en Novembre 1820 (in French; Paris: Librairie de Gide fils, 1820), by Vincent Lombard de Langres
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Liberal-Conservative Club: By-Laws (Montreal, ca. 1896), by Liberal-Conservative Club
  • page images at Canadiana
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Practicing the Ways of Democracy Through the Girls' League (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1943), by Sarah Martha Sturtevant and Ethel Rosenberry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kiwanis Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Dynamic Classroom, by Billie Davis (HTML at archive.org)

• Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Riv-Ellen Prell (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• Written Out: How Sexuality Is Used to Attack Women's Organizing (2000), by Cynthia Rothschild, ed. by Scott Long (HTML at iglhrc.org)
• Soviet Fronts: Women and Youth (1984), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Women of Canada: Their Life and Work (ca.1900), by National Council of Women of Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Lady Maccabee (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the National Convention of the Woman's Relief Corps, by Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• The Montana Woman (partial serial archives)

• Minutes of the Annual Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, North Carolina Division, by United Daughters of the Confederacy North Carolina Division (partial serial archives)

• Minutes of the Annual Convention, by United Daughters of the Confederacy Virginia Division (partial serial archives)

• The Woman's Manual of Parliamentary Law: With Practical Illustrations Especially Adapted to Women's Organizations (fourth edition; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894), by Harriette R. Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories, by Caroline E. Merrick (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Boys' Book of Sports (New York: The Century Co., 1917), by Grantland Rice
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• British Manly Exercises: In Which Rowing and Sailing Are Now First Described, and Riding and Driving Are for the First Time Given in a Work of This Kind (London: T. Hurst, 1834), by Donald Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Walker's Manly Exercises; To Which is Now Added Racing, Hunting and Shooting (seventh edition, revised by Carleton under "Craven" pseudonym; London: W. S. Orr and Co., 1843), by Donald Walker, ed. by John William Carleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Athletic Sports for Boys: A Repository of Graceful Recreations for Youth (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1866) (page images at MOA)

• The Tumult and the Shouting: My Life in Sport (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1954), by Grantland Rice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Gerard Heckscher (3 volumes in 1; Albany: The Argus Co., 1909), contrib. by John Gerard Heckscher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Greek Athletics (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925), by Christine Alexander (page images at Chicago)

• Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1897), by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.