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Images from the Papers of Wojewoda Alfred Bilyk.

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The Economics Cassette Series accounts for the vast majority of the audio recordings in the Milton Friedman papers. This series was a biweekly, subscription-based program that ran from 1968 to 1978. Instructional Dynamics Incorporated (IDI) produced the series, which served as a companion to Friedman's Newsweek columns of the same era. Each program contains an interview with Milton Friedman, recorded either in Chicago, Illinois, or Vermont, during which Professor Friedman comments on the economic issues of the day for approximately half and hour.

Due to their age, these cassettes are severely deteriorated. Specifically, adhesives used during manufacturing have broken down, thus leading to many problems. The first concerns the splice tape that holds the tape to the leader (the nonmagnetic, blank plastic at the beginning/end of each side). Failing adhesive on the sticky side of the splice tape is migrating to the top of the tape, making proper playback difficult. The next problem is the adhesive holding the felt pad on at the bottom of the cassette, which has often dried, loosening the pad (the key to successful playback and reproduction of all audible frequencies) from the cassette mechanism. As we strive to ensure proper preservation through digitization, we must address the aforementioned problems.

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The following are images of some of the baseball artifacts we found in the archives, ranging from photographs of early baseball games at Stanford University through documents showing the various ways that baseball has surfaced in wartime, humanitarian relief activities, and politics throughout the twentieth century.

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