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Booklets: Rubber and Shoe Companies

Many of the vintage booklets related to basketball were produced by shoe or rubber companies. In some cases, companies were both shoe and rubber companies. Note, Converse yearbooks are in a separate category containing Guides and Yearbooks. However, all other Converse literature is found here.

Kinney's Basketball Rules 1943-44
Kinney's Basketball Rules 1946-47
Kinney's Play a Winning Game 1947-48
Pennsylvania Rubber -Better Basketball 1949
Pennsylvania Rubber -Young Champ's Guide 1947
Pennsylvania Rubber Better Ball Revised 1952
Seamless: 13 Basic Basketball Shots 1952
The Five Basketball Positions 1931
U.S. Rubber Keds Basketball 1939
U.S. Rubber Keds Bulletin #10 1945
U.S. Rubber Keds Bulletin #6 1943
U.S. Rubber Offense Defense Tourney Play 1929

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My Favorite Items

1933 C.A. Briggs Basketball
B33 Basket Ball Flannels 1912
Basket Ball Rules for 1893
Hamilton King L5 Leather 1912
Ken-Wel Advertising 1920
Naismith's Phog Allen Portrait Print 1936
Spalding Men - 1896
Spalding Men - 1899/1900
Spalding Women - 1901