New Ulm Sports Central - Preserving and Sharing New Ulm Area Sports History

All of the historic identification tags used in the preservation of sports history on this website have now been rebuilt after a mechanical failure caused losses of over 200 tags in September.

The tags are a description of an historical object being preserved. It has a unique number which will later tie-in directly to a photograph or a document that has been uploaded to the website. Most of the photos already on the site were lost, but fortunately were backed by NUSC's internal system and will be reloaded and matched to the identification tags in the immediate future. All of the VFW baseball team pictures available were targeted in that group.

Not all tags have photographs associated with them. They, however, are a reference to what may be retained in NUSC's hard copy files. Those files mostly are original photographs or documents, a file set up to house thousands of sports-related photographic negatives, a people file and several others.

Work in building this reference so that two search engines can assist viewers started in earnest in September with the help of Martin Luther College students. The first 591 identifications did get recovered from the losses. The balance had to be rebuilt. The total on site now is 799.

The Object Identification Tag (we call 'em "OITs") contain a large description field of what the item is about, dates and has specific criteria such as location, the type of entity, sport, name of the team, conference played in, names of people researching and entering data for that subject, the type of object is, donors, permissions granted by the donors, the storage area, and several others.

Search engines are listed below the Subway advertising on the left-hand column. In the first box, information being searched can be described in several words. These items are those which have been added as "current news". In the "Search Sports History From Yesteryear" box the search finds older records either by keywords or by the specific criteria listed.