Archives
Step Up to the Sport…and Explore our Content.
Finding Aids
- IWBC General Collection
- IWBC Digital Content Collection
- Haines Papers
- Helmer Collection
- Pierson Collection
Browse our collections! Many of our items are digitized and ready to look at online.
Be aware that due to copyright, some items may not be available to view digitally.
Resource Pages
- Active Girls’ and Women’s Baseball Teams and Leagues
- Inactive Girls’ and Women’s Baseball Teams and Leagues
- Women’s Baseball Related Podcasts
- Women in Baseball (A non-exhaustive, ever-growing list with your help!)
- Women’s Baseball Collections (Archival Collections and/or museum exhibits on women in the game.)
- Women’s Baseball Organizations
- Women in Baseball Conference
- Women’s Baseball Heritage Trail
Check out our Resource Pages and help us keep information up-to-date!
If you notice we need to make some updates, please let us know here.
What are we working on?
Our Archivist spent a week in Rockford this April working through collections, meeting with contacts, and getting a plan for future projects and preservation work.
The Archivist has largely digitized the Helmer Collection, although there is still some work to do there. They also have worked on processing and organizing the Shirley Burkovich Collection and photographing the SPoRT Makeup Collection. Information on both these collections are forthcoming.
The Archivist continues to engage with the Museum Committee to move work forward, plan future projects, and set policies for a brick-and-mortar location.
Our processed collections do not reflect the breadth of our items. Please bear with us as our volunteers continue to work and provide access to our collections and items in a preservable and conservable way.