Papers, 1932-1990.

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Papers, 1932-1990.

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The Harry Lobe Straus papers are a small group of fragments preserved by his personal secretary, Christine Behm Nunus, after his death.

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Hagley Museum & Library

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Hagley Museum & Library

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American Totalisator Company, Inc.

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Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society of Baltimore County

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Maryland Jockey Club of Baltimore City.

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Schmidt, John C. (John Charles), 1941-

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Straus, Harry Lobe, 1896-1949

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Harry Lobe Straus, an early computer engineer, was born in Baltimore on March 10, 1896, and graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1917. Beginning in 1928, Straus developed the totalisator or "tote board", an electronic system that printed and issued betting tickets at racetracks, automatically computed the bets and odds, and displayed them on a large board. The first complete totalisator system was installed at Arlington Park in Chicago in 1933 and made possible modern, large-scale racetr...

Gables Racing Association, Inc.

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