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G. W. Blunt White Building, Mystic Seaport
Museum, Mystic CT
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Mystic Seaport
Museum - National Rowing Foundation
Friends of Rowing History - Ready All Row
Let
Her Run!
Inaugural Exhibition List of Objects
in G.W. Blunt White Building
Mystic Seaport Museum
An exhibition of artifacts reflecting the maritime and
aquatic roots and early development of competitive rowing prior to the modern
era, mounted in conjunction with the opening of the National Rowing Foundation’s
National Rowing Hall of Fame at Mystic Seaport. This major long term
exhibition on rowing history is sponsored by the Friends of
Rowing History, the National Rowing Foundation and Mystic Seaport Museum. This
catalogue was written, and this list compiled, by Thomas E Weil.
The opportunity to utilize the W. H. Blunt White Building space resulted from
the tireless efforts of W. Hart Perry working with Paul O'Pecko, Vice President,
Collections and Research, Mystic Seaport Museum.
The National Rowing Hall of
Fame room display was organized by W. Hart Perry, NRF Executive
Director and Mystic Seaport Museum Adjunct
Curator for Rowing,
and Gillian Perry, NRF Executive Secretary and Mystic Rowing Volunteers Coordinator.
The rowing history
exhibition is co-curated by William Miller and Thomas E. Weil, Mystic Seaport
Museum Visiting Curators for Rowing History. The co-curators would like to
express their special appreciation to each of the lenders for entrusting their
treasures to this project.
The staff of the Mystic Seaport Museum and the volunteers of Ready All Row
worked seamlessly with extraordinary intensity to renovate the National Rowing
Hall of Fame space and the rowing history exhibition rooms and to assist in the
mounting of the exhibition. The Ready All Row volunteers continue to generously
support the project by providing reception staffing for the W. H. Blunt White
Building and interpretive services for the exhibition.
See Mystic Seaport Magazine,
July 2009
See NRF photos of the exhibit opening at
http://www.natrowing.org/blunt-white.htm
See US Rowing Let Her Run! video tour at
http://www.usrowing.org/MediaCenter.aspx?id=141&topicID=39
See You Tube Crossroads Magazine TV segment at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDcbNQpeZc
G.W. Blunt White Building
Exhibit Plan
Lobby
Room 1
Prints, Photographs & Posters
Room 2
National Rowing Hall of Fame display
Room 3
History of rowing display
Cabinet 1
The Roots of Rowing
Doggett's Coat & Badge
Oxford & Cambridge Rowing
Eton & Westminster Rowing
Cabinet 2
British Empire Professionals & The Claspers
Henley Royal Regatta
British Clubs & Associations
Cabinet 3
American Clubs & Associations
Cabinet 4
Schuylkill River & Navy
National Association of Amateur Oarsmen
Cabinet 5
Yale & Harvard Rowing
1869 International Boat Race
Cabinet 6 & 7
(special exhibit)
Cabinet 8
American Colleges
Cabinet 9
Schoolboy Rowing
American Professionals
Boat-building
Cabinet 10 Olympic
Rowing
Cabinet 11 Women &
Rowing
Cabinet 12 Canadian
Rowing
Global Reach of Rowing
Spectator Boats & Trains
Cabinet 13
International Regattas
Coaches & Training
Officials
Cabinet 14 Rowing
Popularity
Cabinet 15 Rowing
Art
Rowing History Exhibitions & Preservation
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Contents Directory
Except as otherwise noted, items on display are from the private collection of Thomas E. Weil.
Key to other lenders
TC Mrs. Torry Cooke
WM William Miller
HRR/TW Henley River & Rowing Museum / Thomas E. Weil Collection
MSM/TW Mystic Seaport / Thomas E. Weil Collection
NRF/EB National Rowing Foundation / Ernest Bayer Collection
NRF/F-S National Rowing Foundation / Peter Falk-Stearns Collection
NRF/TCM National Rowing Foundation / Thomas C. Mendenhall Collection
WHP W. Hart Perry
Lobby
Hanging from ceiling in lobby of Blunt-White building -
Wooden single scull “By George” built by legendary American
boatmaker George Pocock in his Seattle workshop, with accompanying pair of
wooden sculls hung over the entrance to Room 1
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Room
1
The large format items in this room touch upon the English roots of rowing,
professionals, clubs, college crews and contests, fine art, regatta publicity,
women, the Olympics and rowing history exhibitions as introductions to the more
detailed presentations in room 3.
[1] Hand colored lithograph.
“Eton Beating Westminster - Staines Bridge, May 12th, 1836,” by Andrew Picken.
The first schoolboy rowing rivalry.
[NRF/TCM]
[2] Hand colored lithograph
“Match Between Eton and Westminster, Rowed at Putney, Augt. 1st. 1843. The Eton
winning by fourteen boats length” Drawn and lithographed by R. K. Thomas, and
printed by Day & Haghe. [NRF/TCM]
[3] Colored lithograph “The
Procession of the Boats, Oxford,” by Vincent Brooks after an 1858 watercolor by
George Howse, published in 1859 by Ryman of Oxford as the third in a series of
classic 19th century rowing views in which “The Start” and “The Race”
show the bumps races between the Oxford college boat clubs on the Isis, and this
image displays the subsequent ritual procession of the contestants.
[NRF/TCM]
[4] Lithograph. A French view of
club boating featuring coxed quads (but note the single, double and triple in
the distance) near Lyon. The initials “UN” stand for l’Union Nautique de Lyon,
founded in 1880, and together with the lion, anchor and crossed oars, make up
the elements of the club’s emblem.
[NRF/F-S]
[5] Hand colored lithograph “A
Modern College Scull. Graduating with all the honors,” drawn by Thomas Worth and
published by Currier & Ives in 1876 as one of a series of comic rowing views.
Emerging from under a bridge labelled “Pons Asinorum” (“Bridge of Fools”), the
oarsman carries trophies representing each year of his undergraduate career.
MSM 2005.110.125 (TEW)
[6] Hand colored lithograph
Another Thomas Worth contribution to Currier & Ives 1876 comic series, “The
Champion Rowist - The Pride of the Club” mocks the current fascination with club
rowing. MSM 2005.110.123 (TEW)
[7] Hand colored lithograph. The
biggest and most elaborate rowing print issued by Currier & Ives, the famous
“printmakers to the American people,” this 1867 view of “James Hammill, and
Walter Brown, in their Great Five Mile Rowing Match for $4000 & the Championship
of America” celebrates two professional scullers in their prime as some of the
best known athletes of the era (see their photographs on shelf 2 of cabinet 9).
[8] Hand colored lithograph. The
notorious rivalry between Canadian Ned Hanlan and New Yorker Charles Courtney,
which featured sabotaged boats, alleged poisonings, gamblers and a lot of
quitting by Courtney, dominated professional sculling in America for several
years. This 1879 print superimposed photo-derived head images of the rivals
(see the originals on shelf 2 in cabinet 9) on a stock format to generate sales
to a public alternatively fascinated and disgusted by the shenanigans. MSM
2005.110.55 (TEW)
[9] Chromolithographic poster.
Designed by Bristow Adams, a member of the university faculty, and published in
1909, “Cornell” captures the pride of the campus in their famous crews, coached
by then-retired professional Charles Courtney, which laid claim to supremacy on
the waters as well as the occasional world record. MSM 2005.110.127 (TEW)
[10] Gouache on board. Rowing at
Oxford and Cambridge is concentrated in the college boat clubs, which hold two
multi-day bump race series each year, the Lents and Mays at Cambridge, and the
Torpids and Summer Eights at Oxford. “The Summer Eights at Oxford” was used as
the original for a popular postcard c.1910 (see shelf 3 of cabinet 1).
[NRF/TCM]
[11] Chromolithographic poster.
“The Last Mile.” A dramatic reminder, drawn by Hibberd V.B. Kline in an unusual
triptych format, and published in 1909, of the brutal final push when crews
typically raced two to four miles instead of 2000 meters.
[12] Chromolithographic poster. A
colorful and fanciful conceit by R.A. Rheem, “The Crew of the Future” was issued
in 1909, just six years following the Wright brothers first flight, and at a
time when America’s interest in college rowing was still mainstream.
On floor in corner between end wall and
side wall - Narragansett rowing machine
[13] Offset printed poster. Thomas
Eakins is the foremost rowing artist in history, and his 1874 oil, John
Biglin in Single Scull, now in the Whitney Collection of Sporting Art at the
Yale University Art Gallery, is one of his best known and beloved images.
[14] Printed broadside. “Grand
Regatta! The Saugerties Rowing Club will hold its Fifth Annual Regatta, On the
Beautiful “Esopus,” at Saugerties, N.Y. Thursday, July 18, 1878.” At the height
of rowing’s popularity in the 19th century, railroads and riverside
towns with rail access would promote regattas to attract spending spectators to
the event. MSM 2005.110.26 (TEW)
[15] and [16] Colored lithographs
by Wing Hunter, published by Emanuel Colodny in 1931. [above] “Poughkeepsie
Regatta of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association - June 16, 1931” Over the
years, the site of the IRA championship regatta has moved from the Hudson River
venue to Marietta, Ohio, and thence to Lake Onondaga at Syracuse, New York,
before settling for the present on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey.
[below] “Harvard Yale Crew Race” shows the classic view of a finish at
Bartlett’s Cove after a four mile upstream row on the Thames River, with Yale’s
Gales Ferry boathouse visible on the far shore beyond the line of yachts moored
along the midstream side of the course.
[NRF/TCM]
[17] Silk screen print. Jim
Anderegg’s “Late Fall Practice,” created in 1948 after Anderegg saw the
Princeton crew on Lake Carnegie rowing into the glow of a car’s headlights, is
the iconic 20th century image of college rowing. MSM 2004.83.4 (TEW)
[18] . Offset printed poster.
Typical of Tom Kudzma’s prolific output of regatta posters from the 1960’s to
the 1980’s, “Spring Festival Regatta and New England Women’s Championships
Lowell, Massachusetts May 19, 1974” displays his use of color, diverse fonts
and vintage wood engravings to illuminate and celebrate rowing. MSM 2004.83.36
(TEW)
[19] Offset printed poster. This
photonegative-based stern-on view of an eight in mid-stroke, designed by Fritz
Fenzl Aicher, Joksch, Wirthner, Nagy and printed by Fehling, Hanover in stunning
colors produced one of the most highly acclaimed posters issued for the 1972
Munich Olympics. MSM 2005.110.53 (TEW)
[20] Offset printed poster. The
first U.S. exhibition of rowing art and artifacts was curated by UC Santa
Barbara University Art Museum director David Farmer in conjunction with the 1984
Summer Olympics (see catalogue in shelf 3 of cabinet 15). The Rowing/Olympics
logo was adapted from an 1895 regatta poster by Belgian artist Auguste Donnay.
[21] Offset printed poster.
“Reflections On A Tradition” at Georgetown University in 1990 is the only
significant rowing legacy display prior to 2008 in connection with an annual
meeting of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen or its successor,
USRowing, since 1872. The exhibition poster features the dramatic lithographic
print “The Last Mile” (see opposite wall).
Three images over the entryway from the
lobby [22], [23] and [24] Printed broadsides issued
by rail roads to convince passengers to ride their trains to get to boat races.
[left] Cornell-Harvard “Intercollegiate Boat Race/ on Owasco Lake,/ Wednesday,
July 17, 1878” (see the Cornell freshmen memento of this race on shelf 1 of
cabinet 8) MSM 2005.110.44 (TEW); [center] Grand/ Regatta!/ At Springfield,/
Friday, August 27, 1858./ $500.00 in Prizes!!” MSM 2005.110.119 (TEW); [right]
./ Boat Races/ Wednesday, July 22nd, and Friday, July 24th,/ at/ Lake
Quisigamond./ Special Trains to Lake Signal.” MSM 2005.110.135 (TEW)
[25] Embroidered silk banner of the
Commodore of the Schuylkill Navy. MSM 2005.110.43 (TEW)
[Removed for conservation]
[26] Albumen studio portrait. This
large image of the 1884 national champion senior eight of the Columbia Boat
Club, Washington, D.C. provides a wonderful record of contemporary rowing
clothing, the form and display of personal medals, a championship trophy,
championship silk banners, and some quite sturdy legs. MSM 2004.83.4 (TEW)
[27] Felt pennant. A common wall
decoration in 20th century collegiate rooms and team symbol at sports
events, the felt pennant, this representing Cornell crew, has celebrated
innumerable teams and schools for decades. MSM/TEW?
[28] Silver print photograph mounted
on board. The unfavorable impression left by the 1905 Vesper Boat Club entry
for the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta set the stage for the
Regatta Stewards’ rejection of Jack Kelly Sr’s Diamond Sculls application in
1920. Here, Leander Club, based in Henley-on-Thames, beats Vesper in an early
heat in the regatta. [WM]
[29] Two albumen photographs. The
July 18, 1883 race between ex-champion Ned Hanlan and reigning champion Wallace
Ross ettled who was the better man. [left] The view of the start shows Hanlan,
fittingly, away in a blur; he set a new record for four miles, beating the
humiliated Ross by over a minute, as seen in the adjacent view of the finish
[right]. [NRF/F-S]
[30] Silver bromide sepia print
photograph c.1910. Contesting America’s oldest rowing rivalry, which dates from
1852, Yale and Harvard race through the finish line flags in a classic upstream
four mile battle on the Thames.
[NRF/F-S]
[31] Three albumen photographs.
Harvard oarsman Warren Norton Goddard ‘79 shows the prevailing style on a rowing
machine, with views of the beginning of the stroke, the finish of the body
swing, and the end of the leg drive and arm draw.
[NRF/F-S]
Six attached framed images over the
doorway from Room 1 to Room 2 – [32] New Yorker
covers: five of the six relate explicitly to the Yale-Harvard boat race; that
five of these images appeared during the first twelve years of the magazine’s
existence, and only one in the last 70 years, may be a measure of the declining
significance of the event to its readership over that period. Left to right:
25/06/1927 cover by Ilonka Karasz; 20/06/1931 cover by Liam S. Dunne; 15/06/1935
cover by Garrett Price; 20/06/1936 cover by Afronengold; 27/05/1961 cover by CEM;
26/06/1926 cover by Julian de Miskey.
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Room
2 (middle passage ) - U.S.
Rowing Hall of Fame display
The Varsity Challenge Cup, a tall, heavily
decorated sterling silver trophy in the shape of an enormous pitcher or ewer,
presented in 1898 by by Dr. Louis L. Seaman of Cornell, to be held for one year
by each winner of the Varsity Eight-Oared Shells event of the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association. On loan by the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association.
The Stewards' Cup was presented in 1900 by
Francis S. Bangs of Columbia. It was to be held for one year by each winner of
the Freshman Eight-Oared Shells event of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association.
On loan by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association.
U.S. Olympic Team oar from the 2004 Athens
Games gold medal U.S. crew. Donated to the National
Rowing Foundation by Chris Ahrens, a member of the crew.
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Room
3 - History of rowing display
Until the 18th century, throughout man’s history, rowing was almost never used
for sport and recreation – it was the hard work of triremes and galleys, fishing
dorys, whaleboats, pilot gigs, lifeboats, and, most of all, the wherries and
cutters manned by watermen, lightermen or ferrymen wherever bodies of water
provided a means of, or barrier to, passage.
In classical times, oared vessels
engaged in the offense and defense of Greek and Roman cities and empires, and
provided the most efficient means for moving heavy cargos around the
Mediterranean littoral. Sails were used when the winds were favorable, but the
need for quick manouvers, and movement when the winds were lacking, made oarsmen
the prime movers of the navies and merchant vessels in that era, and they
remained the masters of smaller water transport craft for over two thousand
years, until displaced by steam and internal combustion engines.
As more people became urbanised in the 18th
and 19th centuries, and the middle and upper classes found extra time
on their hands, proponents of the benefits of exercise hailed rowing as one of
the most healthy pastimes, and an activity that had theretofor been practiced
almost exclusively by the working class began to be seen as a source of
recreation and amusement. For some, it was the first step in an athletic career
that encompassed many forms of exercise.
Cabinet 1 / Shelf 1 -
The roots of rowing
Watermen were among the first of the trades to be
regulated by statute. Between the apprenticeships required by the guild, the
fares dictated by Parliament, the competition for customers and the toil of the
oar, watermen had little opportunity to rise above grinding poverty.
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Book LeRoy,
La Marine des Anciens Peuples. Paris: Nyon/Stoupe, MDCCLXXVII
[1777]. Imagined section of a trireme. |
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Wood eng
20/07/1869 Chatterbox. “Female Heroism” 23-year old Grace Darling and her
lighthouse keeper father |
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Wood eng
[1881] “The Sailor’s Wife.” By C Vosson after [?] Ulysse Butin. Goupil &
Co. Paris. |
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Col illus
12/05/1934 Saturday Evening Post “The Last Gloucesterman” by Gordon Grant |
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Steel eng
1873 City of Boston/ [From South Boston]/ J.D. Woodward, Del. E.P. Brandard/
New York, D. Appleton & Co. |
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Col lith
View of Uraga, Yedo Bay” W. Heine T. Sinclairs, Lith. Phil. |
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Copper eng
"A View of an Italian Regatta or Gondola Race on the Grand Canal at Venice
&c." by Charles Theodore Middleton London: 1778. |
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Photo
c.1890 J. Ludovici, N.Y. [Venetian Doge galley model] |
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Pamphlet
16th November 1699 Parliament Resolution regulating watermen’s fares.
Published 1700. [WM] |
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Waterman’s license
on vellum issued to George Barton, Parish of Shadwell, County of Middlesex,
whose time expired 07/09/1793 |
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Aquatint
“View of Lambeth from Millbank.” J. Farington R.A. delt. Pub. June 1, 1793,
by J. & J. Boydell, Cheapside London. |
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Photo c.
1897 [fishing? champions with oars] |
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Broadside
7-10/08/1821 King’s Theatre, Richmond “In consequence of the Death of Her
Majesty, the Rowing Match which was to have taken place on Monday next, In
Honor of the King’s Birthday, Will be postponed to a future Day, of which
due Notice will be given.” |
Cabinet 1 / Shelf 2 - Doggett’s
Coat and Badge
Organised boat racing began in 1715 with the establishment of
Doggett’s Coat and Badge, a race for Tideway watermen in their first year out of
apprenticeship. In addition to the distinguished coat and large silver badge,
these “rookies of the year” also constituted the pool from which the monarch’s
bargemen were selected. The success of the races as a popular attraction led to
other races for watermen as well.
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Copper eng
“The Contest for Doggett’s Coat and Badge/ A Prize rowed for every 1st of
Augst” Published by Rodgson & Co., 1838. |
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News photo
August 1932 “Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race Reunion” Harry Silvester, a
previous winner, congratulating his son, the latest winner. |
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Photo
c.1990 Queen’s watermen Bushnell, Arlett, Dott, Barry, Taylor, Phelps and
Turk on the Leander raft. |
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Col illus
of 1912 b/w photo. Royal Barge rowing upstream at 1912 Henley Royal
Regatta [HRR/TW] |
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Book
The Oarsman’s Guide to the Thames and Other Rivers By A Member of the
Leander Club. Comprising Tables of Distances, Particulars of the Inns and
Railway Stations on the Banks, Locks, Tolls, Flowing of the Tide, and Other
Useful Information. Lambeth: sold by Messrs. Searle, [1857].
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Copper eng
from The London Magazine: ... for July, 1775. “A Humorous Scene at
the Regatta./ Publish’d as the Act directs Augt 1 1775” by J.W. |
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Book
Donald Walker, British Manly Exercises: in which Rowing and Sailing are
now First Described. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1836. |
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Book
“Uncle John,” The Boy’s Book of Sports and Games New York: Geo. S.
Appleton, 1852 [but copyright 1850] |
Cabinet 1 / Shelf 3 - Oxford
and Cambridge
The base of rowing at England’s two most venerable universities is in the
college boat clubs, some of which date to the 1810’s, and which have their own
extensive rowing programs. Some of the oldest and most beautiful team sport
trophies are the pewter mugs and tankards won in Oxbridge boat club races. The
Boat Race, first held in 1829, is one of England’s major sporting spectacles,
and attracts collegiate oarsmen from around the world to compete for Oxford’s
Dark Blue or Cambridge’s Light Blue.. Cricket and rowing dominated the
emergence of team sport at Oxford and Cambridge, where it was centered in the
residential college boat clubs.
The first Boat Race between the universities
took place at Henley in 1829; every subsequent contest was on the Tideway, most
often over the approximately 4 miles from Putney to Mortlake. The race, which
in its heyday drew more spectators than any other sporting event could ever hope
to, continues to be one of the defining dates on the British sporting calendar.
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Book [John
Fitzherbert Bateman]: Aquatic Notes, or Sketches of the Rise and
Progress of Rowing at Cambridge. By a Member of the C.U.B.C. With a
Letter, Containing Hints on Rowing and Training, by Robert Coombes,
Champion-Sculler. Cambridge and London, 1852. |
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Receipt
19/11/1857 Trinity College First Boat Club October Term receipt for L3.15s. |
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Prize tankard
“Emmanuel Sculling Races/ [arms]/ Lent Term 1855/ 2nd Prize/ 25 Boats
Entered/ S. Nairne” |
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Stereoview
“The Cambridge University Crew./ Henley Regatta./ 1858.” |
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Sheet music
c.1870 “Inscribed to the Rowing Men of Oxford./ The Boat Race,/ Written
B.S. Mongomery Composed J.L. Hatton/ London.” |
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Cdv 1869
Oxford crew by W & A.H. Fry,/ Photographic Artists,/ 68, East Street
Brighton. [HRR/TW] |
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Prize tankard
by James Dixon & Sons “Balliol College/ [college arms]/ Scratch Fours/ 1865” |
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Postcard
“Summer Eights” Published after original gouache in Room 1 |
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Postcards
c. 1912 Series of Oxford University Oars, Flags, and Arms. (1st)
University, Merton, Balliol, Exeter, Oriel, Queen’s Colleges; (2nd) New,
Lincoln, Magdalen, Brasenose, Corpus Christi, Christ Church, Trinity, St.
John’s Colleges; (3rd) Jesus, Wadham, Pembroke, Worcester, St. Edmund Hall,
Hertford, Keble, St. Catherine’s Colleges. |
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Prize medal
By Munsey Cambridge [obv] “Universitas Cantabrigiensis” [rev] “Trial Eights/
1883” |
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Race program
Thursday, May 21./ Taunt’s/ Daily/ Chart/ of the/ Eight-Oared Races, 1914./
[etc.] Oxford. |
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Photo c
.1920. By Kidd & Baker, Cambridge. One Cambridge college eight about to
bump another. |
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Dinner program
“St. Edmund Hall Boat Club/ Bump Supper/ The Torpids/ Wednesday, February
22nd/ 1939/ Head of the River” |
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Admission badge
"Official 1955 Oxford v. Cambridge Boat Race Souvenir," with [printed?]
signatures of the two captains. |
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News photo
02/04/1938 “Oxford Beat Cambridge in Boat Race” |
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Wood eng
ILN 1864 "The Boat Procession on the River Cam in Honour of the Prince and
Princess of Wales" [HRR/TW] |
Cabinet 1 / Shelf 4 - Eton and
Westminster
The birthplace of organized amateur rowing (1793), Eton’s
boating rituals include the 4th of June celebration featuring naval
uniforms, flowery hats and tossed oars. The importance of rowing at Westminster
is evidenced by the prominence of this article in an 1847 school newsletter.
One of the two earliest rowing amateur
rivalries was between the English private schools of Eton, located in the shadow
of Windsor Castle, and Westminster, in the center of London. Amateur boat
racing had its deepest roots at Eton, many of whose graduates carried the sport
with them to Cambridge and Oxford.
Eton’s traditional celebration of The Fourth
of June, which combines extravagant dress with the practice of “tossing oars,” a
bygone form of salute, while standing in the boat, continues today. The “Eton
Boating Song,” probably the best known rowing song, was written in the Northwest
Frontier Territory, where today’s Taliban continue the resistance to outside
authority that their forefathers demonstrated to the British.
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Bound periodicals
College & T.B, Life at Westminster Occasional Papers During the Years
1845, 1846, 1847. Westminster, MDCCCXLVII. |
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Photo c.
1890 Windsor castle from Eton boathouse |
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Straw boater
c. 1920 From a member of the Eton 4th of June “Britannia” crew. |
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Two cdvs
Eton oarsmen wearing 4th of June boaters. |
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Photo
c.1980? Standing Eton crew tossing oars and tipping boaters for 4th of June
celebration. [HRR/TW] |
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Prize medal
[obv] "Floreat Etona" [rev] "HS Boden (Bow)/ Trial Eights/
1885" |
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Sheet music
“Eton Boating Song/ Words by the Author of “Ionica”/ Music by A.D.E.W./
Lauren Bacall in/ North West Frontier/ [etc]” |
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Engraved mug
reflecting the lifetime athletic history of the owner.
Rowing is featured in 1864 (Eton), 1865 (Cambridge), 1866 (Cambridge), 1867
(Cambridge), 1868 (Dublin – but including the Diamonds) and 1871 (Dublin). |
Cabinet 2 / Shelf 1 -
British Empire professionals, and the Claspers
The spread of wagering on rowing events motivated a number of
British watermen, who were excluded from amateur regattas, to focus on racing
for fame and fortune as professionals. These men, principally from Newcastle on
Tyne and the Thames, were among the most celebrated sportsmen of their time.
Some also made great contributions to rowing as innovators in boat-building; the
Claspers are credited with introducing the outrigger to the sport.
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Six lith illustrations
c.1885. Professional scullers: J.G. Chambers, E. Hanlan, R.H. Labat, E.
Laycock, W Ross, N Trickett [HRR/TW] |
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Photo
c.1889 Australian professional sculling champion Henry E. Searle, with death
clipping (December 10, 1889) of peritonitis. [HRR/TW] |
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Three cdvs
[left] Henry Kelly ca. 1871 [center] James Renforth ca. 1871 [right] -
James Renforth Rememberance ca. 1871 [WM] |
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Trophy goblet
on wooden plinth; “Renforth/ 1920/ Robert Belyea” Given in Renforth’s
memory. |
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Wood eng
30/09/1871 Graphic "The Late Champion Sculler, Renforth, on the Tyne" |
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Wood eng
by Sydney Hall. Renforth posed in his single. |
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Race program
Thames Regatta/ for/ Watermen./ First Day, Saturday, Aug. 17, 1872 |
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Artifacts from the Clasper family
estate
[NRF/Fred Roffe] |
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1843 Durham Regatta silver medal won by
five Clasper brothers |
printed race record of JH Clasper |
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1845 H Clasper testimonial silver scull
model |
c. 1890? photo Clasper boathouse in
Putney |
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1854 Richmond Regatta sterling silver
goblet won by JH Clasper |
Clasper boatbuilder sales model single
scull with sculls |
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1856 silver plate goblet won by JH
Clasper |
1898 als from JH Clasper to nephew H.G.
Roffe |
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1858 silver medal Northern Rowing Club
won by JH Clasper for defeating 19 competitors |
1889 International Sport Cologne
exposition gold and bronze medals awarded for Clasper’s boat building |
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1868 Tunbridge Boating Club silver plate
goblet for JH Clasper |
1900 gold locket with portrait of JH
Clasper and wife |
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n.d. silver inkwell shaped as helmeted
warrior for JH Clasper |
c. 1900 photo portrait of JH Clasper.
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Cabinet 2 / Shelf 2 - Henley
Royal Regatta
Established in 1839, the Regatta, now run over five
days, has showcased the best of British amateur rowing, and has served as a
magnet for overseas crews. It is the most prominent world event in which
lightweights can compete against heavyweights. Hart Perry was the first
American Henley Steward.
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Race programs
(a) 1839 Henley Regatta program and 1840 Henley regatta program framed
together [WHP]
(b) Henley Royal Regatta/ Friday,
July 5th, 1889/ Official Programme.
(c) Henley Royal Regatta/ The Official Programme for Wednesday. [05/07/1893]
(d) Stewards of Henley Royal Regatta/ Saturday, July 4, 1914/ Finals Day. |
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News photo
20/07/1922. “The Finals at Henley” Jack Beresford congratulating Walter
Hoover after being beaten by Hoover in the Diamonds, together with
handwritten epigram by Beresford re losing |
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News photo
c.1930 “Henley’s Glorious Finale” |
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News photo
08/07/1937. “One of the Finishes at the Henley Royal Regatta” Tabor
winning a Thames Cup heat. |
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Prize medal
by Pinches. 1971 Thames Challenge Cup. |
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Commemorative Spode bone china mug
150th Anniversary 1839-1989 To Celebrate the Sesquicentenary of Henley
Royal Regatta. |
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Stereoview
1858 Henley Regatta coxed four crew next to shell turned hull up.
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Stereoview
1859 “Group of Cups Contended for at Henley” |
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Line illus
Punch 11/07/1896 “The Loving Cup at Henley! Father Thames (to Yale)
‘Here’s to you, boys! Delighted to see you!’
[HRR/TW] |
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Medallion
by Le Roy celebrating the win of the Nautique de Gand club in the 1907
Henley Grand Challenge Cup |
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Postcard
1907. “Les Vainqueurs du Grand Challenge Cup 1907 Henley / Heliotype de
Graeve - Gand” |
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Delft plate
Commemorating the victory of Dutch sculler Frits Eyken over Jack Beresford
in the finals of the 1921 Diameond Sculls. |
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Ticket book
Henley Royal Regatta/ 1956/ Member's Book of Tickets for
Teas and Refreshments in the Stewards' Enclosure. |
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Member badges
HRR Steward’s Enclosure badges for 1932, 1956, 1960, 1971 (ladies) and 1976 |
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Supporter button
“Washington/ / Henley ‘77/ Crew” |
Cabinet 2 / Shelf 3 - British
rowing clubs and associations
Until their merger in 1956, British amateur rowing was
divided between Amateur Rowing Association clubs admitting oarsmen fitting
within an elitist definition of “amateur,” and National Amateur Rowing
Association clubs whose membership was more broadly based. Leander Club, which
dates to 1818, is the oldest and best known of British rowing clubs.
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Ceramic statue
“A Leander Member c.1840” No. 19 of 250
[WHP] |
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Invitation
to Leander Club 150th Anniversary Dinner, Monday, 8th July, 1968 |
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Prize mug
"Kingston Rowing Club/ 8 Oared Race/ April 23 & 24/ 1861" |
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Prize oars
Pair of hallmarked sterling model sculling oars; one engraved “Sepr. 22nd
1855” and the other engraved “D.T. Frazer” |
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Prize medal
c.1855 “Chester/ Regatta” |
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Book [John
Henry Walsh/ Rev.J.G. Wood?], Rowing and Sailing. London: Routledge,
Warne, and Routledge, 1863. |
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Prize stoppered glass flask
“R.L.R.C. [N.L.R.C.?]/ 8 Oared Race/ Sept. 16th 1866/ Won By/ R. [N.?] C.
White” |
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Prize medal
[obv] “Belfast Amateur Rowing Club” [rev] “Mulholland Cup/
1868/ E.M. Adams/ Stroke” |
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Booklet
Leander Club / List of Members 1909. |
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Various prize medals:
(a) [silver] Staines Amateur Regatta 1929/ Junior Eights/
Won By/ Beaumont College; (b) [bronze] c.1930 Metropolitan [Regatta] Old
Barnes Challenge Cup; (c) [bronze] c. 1930 Metropolitan Amateur Regattal/
Ben Horton L.R.C./ Vice President/ 1897-1907 Horton Cup for Fours; (d)
[bronze] c.1930 Metropolitan Eight Oared Challenge Cup 1866 / Met: Amateur
Regatta/ Foundation Clubs; (e) [bronze] Junr. Senr. 8 Oar Dash 1933; (f)
[bronze] by Pinches 1947/ Senior/ VIII-Oar Dash; (g) Marlow Amateur Regatta
1960 [HRR/TW]; (hh cased silver proof by Pinches London Rowing Club
Estd. 1856 Trial Eights/ Vires Acquirit Eundo/ 1906; (i) Molesey Amateur
Regatta CXXV/ Junior/ 15 1/ 1992 |
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Newspaper
09/07/1787 The Morning Post, and Daily Advertiser [London] “Vauxhall
Gardens” Race announcement |
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Prize silver shield
on folding legs [obv] Y.A.R.C./ Autumn Regatta/ October 4th/ 1912/ Scratch
Fours |
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Prize medal
[obv] North London / ARA [rev] Iris R.C./ Bottomley Cup/
Novice Fours/ Runners-Up/ 1930 |
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Prize mug
by JT & Co. “NARA Regatta 1935 Junior Fours” |
Cabinet 2 / Shelf 4 - Rowing
outside the shell
Rowing achievements include racing in lifeboats, Cornish
gigs, naval cutters, Whitehalls and recreational boats, aquatic contests such as
mop fighting, and distance rowing. Amateur rowing was popularized in Europe by
the 1850’s rowing tours of several English crews. The first transAtlantic
crossing for the hell of it was made by Harbo and Samuelson, two Norwegian
fishermen from New Jersey, shown here in their boat. The spread of the middle
class and the freedom from crowded cities offered by boating excursions made
rowing attractive to young and old. Four of the most popular books in the
Victorian and Edwardian era (The Boat Club, Alice in Wonderland,
Three Men in a Boat and The Wind in the Willows) were inspired by
or based upon this casual rowing. Touring rivers in oared boats extended to
foreign travel in the 1850’s; by the end of the century, two Norwegian fishermen
living in New Jersey had completed the first documented trans-Atlantic crossing
by oar alone.
For many years, pulling contests in cutters
was one of the more common ways for naval vessels to engage intra-fleet
competition. Although most boat racing today utilizes the “shell” archetype,
there is increasing interest in racing more traditional work boats and hull
shapes. And some aquatic events have more in common with the boxing ring or
tournament venue than a race course. Before the introduction of the Concept II
ergometer, those searching for fitness from rowing could hop in a boat or on to
a rowing machine; a remarkable number of early and mid-20th century
movie stars found themselves sitting in or on one or the other for publicity
shots.
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Pamphlet
Janet and Bridget Cusack, Plymouth and Devonport Church and Chapel Rowing
Clubs Before the 1939 – 45 War. 2000 |
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Book
Robert Blachford Mansfield, The Log of the Water Lily (Thames Gig) During
Two Cruises in the Summers of 1851-2, on the Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle,
Danube, and other Streams of Germany. London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854.
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Studio card photo
1896. Harbo and Samuelson in their rowboat “Fox” in which they made the
first trans-Atlantic crossing by oar. |
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News photo
10/09/1938 “Italians Win International Lifeboat Race” |
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Race program
Rye Annual Regatta 03/08/1874 [boulder boats, registered fishing boats,
four-oared galleys, sculling with one oar] |
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Prize medals
USN crossed oars and 1891 silver coin for “Cutter Race”
[WM] |
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Prize urn
Reed & Barton City of Boston/ July 4th 1892/ Neponset Rowing Regatta/ Junior
Four Oared/ Working Boat MSM 2005.110.1 (TEW) |
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Race program
[Royal Navy] Programme/ of/ Capital Ship Pulling Regatta/ 1939. |
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Prize mug
by W.R. Loftus “Guards Boat Club Regatta/ 1935/ (Second)/ Mop Fighting” |
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News photo
02/07/1938. “West Virginia Pulls Heartily to Victory in Navy Race” |
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Event button
c.1980. “Sark Jersey Race/ Bonne Nuit Boat/ Owners Association/ Jersey
Rowing Club” |
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News photo
30/03/1934 “Baer Does A Bit of Rowing” Max Baer training for his
championship boxing match with Primo Carnera. |
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Prize oar
Hallmarked silver naval oar “W.J.D.”
[WHP] |
Cabinet 3 / Shelf 1 - Early
American rowing / American clubs and associations
One of the greatest public spectacles of the early 19th
century in New York, drawing a crowd of as many as 50,000-100,000, was the 1824
race between four New York Whitehall watermen in the “American Star” and four
British sailors from a visiting warship. The American victory was so celebrated
by the people of the city (see symbolic print) that when Lafayette made his
farewell tour later that year, the winning boat was presented to him (it is
today the oldest Whitehall in existence). An engraving of a victorious figure
emerging from the waves, the first boat-racing image published in the United
States, memorialized this event.
The earliest boat clubs, dating from at
least the 1830’s, are notably represented by the sheet music written in their
honor. The 1837 silver pitcher won by the Erie Boat Club for a 5-mile race is
the oldest team sport trophy in America. Stereoviews made of the 1859 and
1860 regattas in New York Harbor may be among the first photographs of
American team sporting events.
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Sheet music:
(a) 1831 New York Boat Club. “My Bark is My Courser.” Printed by John B.
Pendleton in New York. [NRF/F-S]; (b)
1836 “Light May the Boat Row/ Written by Jonas B. Phillips/ dedicated to
the/ Amateur Boat Club association by J. Watson”; (c) 1840 “Arouse Ye Gay
Comrades” to the Tiger Boat Club. written by Thomas Power. composed by Jos.
Philip Knight./ Boston. MSM 2005 xred 2005.110.170 (TEW?); (d) 1846
“Mahopac Lake Waltz” “Club Boat Gazelle/ to The Amateur Cornet Club, by
Allen Dodworth./ New York; (e) 1865 “Waverley Galop de Concert Composed and
Dedicated by Konrad Treuer to the Waverley Boat Club of New York City”; and
(f) 1875 “Triton March” “To Commodore Charles Glaze. Triton Boat Club Newark
N.J. Composed by Charles I. Bolles.” |
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Engraving
20/05/1825 “Sketch’d by Cummings Eng by S. Maverick & J.F. Morin.”
“Whitehall,” “American Star.” “Cockwain J. Magnus” and “Oarsmen Corls.
Cammeyer, Alfd. Cammeyer, Chas. Beateaugh, R. Robins.”
The first boat-racing image published in the United States.
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Prize pitcher
by Frederick Marquand of New York, “Awarded to the Erie Boat Club by the
Judges of the Regatta Given by Cap,’t PP Wendell For there superior skill
in rowing the RACE Distance 5 miles June 19, 1837” The oldest team sport
trophy in the United States. |
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Race program
1838 1888/ 50th Anniversary/ Narragansett Boat Club/ Spring Regatta/
Saturday, June 23, 1888. |
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Race program
Jamaica Boat Club Regatta/ September 25, 1875./ on/ Jamaica Pond.
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Stereoview
04/07/1859 Anthony’s Instantaneous Views, No. 19/ The Regatta, July 4th,
1859. Preparing for the Start. [New York Harbor] |
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Stereoview
04/07/1860 “Anthony’s Instantaneous Views / Fourth of July in and about New
York. The Regatta – The Start, July 4th, 1860. |
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Prize goblet
“Watkins Regatta/ 1875” |
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Stereoview
c.1876? by R.S. DeLamater, Photo./ 258 Main Street, Hartford, Conn [Sculler
posed at the catch in a sliding seat single] |
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Stereoview
c.1876? R.S. De Lamater, Photo./ 258 Main Street, Hartford, Conn [Six oar
crew posed at the catch in a fixed seat shell] |
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Prize goblet
"M.B.A./ 2.d Prize./ Four-oared Race/ Bath./ Oct. 4.th/ 1871./ J.A.
Kennedy." "Wilcox Silver Plate" |
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Prize medal on ribbon
1923 Junior Eights
[WM] |
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Prize medal on ribbon
[obv] gold “PBC” “Palisade Boat Club” “Fall Regatta 1903” [rev] “Four
Oared Gig/ Won By/ H.F. Shaen/ Time 6:32” |
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Prize medal on ribbon
[obv] “NRRC” “1901” [rev] President’s Prize / ½ Mile Novice / Sept. 2nd
/ Alpheus Rehbein [WM
friend] |
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Prize medal on ribbon
[obv] “NRRC” “1902” [rev] 8 Oared Shell / Sept. 1st / Alpheus
Rehbein [WM friend] |
Cabinet 3 /
Shelf 2 - (American clubs and associations continued)
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Mss contract
1868 for a race between two scullers
[WM] |
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Wood eng
26/09/1868 Frank Leslie’s “Grand Regatta of the Hudson River Rowing
Association – Sept. 10th, off the Elysian Fields, Hoboken – Close of the
Fourth Race. – The Mutuals Leading on the Homestretch.” |
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17/06/1868 Broadside City Regatta for
race between two single scullers
[WM] |
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Prize tankard
"Boston Rowing Regatta/ August 1869/ Four-oard Race/ Crew" |
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Silk menu
Banquet Given to the/ Northwestern Amateur Boating Association, by the/
Milwaukee Boat Club, Newhall House, July 13th[?], 1871. |
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Prize goblet
by Reed & Barton “Second Prize/ Four oared shell race/ Brooklyn Boat Club/
July 4th 1879” MSM 2005.110.7 (TEW) |
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Various prize medals:
() 1877 Argonauta; () Hillsdale Rowing Club 1881 Senior Fours; () “8 Oared
Shell – 7th Regt. 9th Co./ vs. 2nd Co./ N.G.S.N.Y. 1883”; () Greenwood Lake
83 Eight Oared Shell; () Harlem Regatta Assn. 1886 Pair Oared Shell; ()
“Harlem Regatta Assn 1886 Four Oared Gig”; () “1887 Annual Regatta P.R.A.
Junior 4 Oared T.? C. Powell No. 3”; () “95 M.&W.A.R.A. Senior Four Oar”; ()
c. xxxx Junior 4-Oar crossed oars Indian head ; () c. 1900
"Friendship Annual Regatta"; () L.M. Bliss 04/07/1901 ; () by Dieges
& Clust “Harlem Regatta Assn 1906”; () by Dieges & Cust “Harlem Regatta
Association 1910 Junior/ 8/ Oared Shell Solid Gold/ / 23”; () Southern
Rowing Ass’n Regatta 1916 Richmond Va; () 10k gold Senior Double 1916
C.S.A.R.A. Central States Amateur Rowing Ass’n. H.H. Vogler/ Peoria Ill./
July 3 & 4 - 16; () “Middle States Regatta Baltimore 1927 Jr 8 Oared Shells/
Won By Malta Boat Club”; () 10k gold “N.Y.R.A. 1941 May 30, 1941/ Jr. Double
Gig”; () gold-filled “Northwestern R.A. International Mel’s 1948 Senior
Eight”; () by Dieges & Clust [gilt/silver] on ribbon “President’s Cup
Regatta – Washington, D.C. Rowing/ 1959” |
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Medal Crossed oars pinback “MR”
monogram in wreath [WM] ; Medal New
York Rowing Association circular; n.d.? Medal/badge Waverly enamel on gold
circular blue/whit ribbon Timer bar [WM]
; () gold “Harlem Regatta Association [lacking sparkling
stone (diamond?)] 1910 Similar to # 15 above, but Timers medallion
[WM] |
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Silver colored pendant. “North Pacific
Asn. Amateur Oarsman [sic]” “N.P.A.A.O.” 1908 |
Cabinet 3 / Shelf 3
(American clubs and associations continued) - Diorama and ribbons
The 1840's-1850's diorama shows the Ion Boat Club of Boston,
wearing Oriental costumes in a 6-oar boat. Stimulated by the publicity
surrounding the 1869 Harvard-Oxford race (see Cabinet 5), clubs spread around
the country (note 1870's ribbons from southern and mid-western clubs), and
provided almost all of the U.S. small boat entries in international contests
prior to the modern era.
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Diorama c.
1850 coxed six, dressed in Turkish style costumes, in boat with “Ion” on
gunwale, U.S. ensign at the bow and “Ion” banner at the stern |
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Ticket
“Nassau Boat Club/ Monday, September 6th, 1869,/ Four Oared Shell Race,/
Three Miles Straight Away/ Nassau Course/ ... / Steamer ‘P.C. Schultz’
leaves 34th St., North River, at 4.30 P.M.” |
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Ticket
27/05/1884 First Annual Picnic The Licking Valley Rowing Assoc’n, of
Newport, Ky Holder is entitled to a chance on a Fine Double-Oared Boat. |
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Notice
28/02/1876 "First Annual meeting Viking Boat Club. Newark, N.J."
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Glass tankard
c.1870 "Nassau/ N.Y./ B.C." over [TW?] monogram. MSM 2005.110.5 (TEW) |
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Stereoview
c.1875. Stereoscopic Views on Cayuga Lake, No. 21 [Union Springs Boating
Club] R.R. Abbott,/ Union Springs, N.Y. |
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Stereoview
“The Grand Regatta/ At Devils Lake, Wisconsin, June 21st and 22d, 1877” |
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Scrapbook
[regatta ribbons] [NRF/F-S] |
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Ribbon badge Fourth of July/
Celebration/ City of New Bedford/ Regatta Committee/ 1892
[WM] |
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Prize mug
by John Frick “P.B.C. Fall Regatta Palisade Boat Club 1903/ Invitation/ -
Eight |
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Cabinet photo
c. 1875 George Cobb, Binghamton, N.Y. [straight four] |
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Race program
xx/xx/1924 Southern Rowing Association Old Dominion
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Race program.
Annual Regatta of the Southwestern Amateur Rowing Ass’n. Creve Coeur Lake/
July 19th and 20th, 1902. |
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10 karat gold medal. “New York Rowing
Ass’n Regatta” “Junior 8 Shell/ May 30, 1923” |
Cabinet 3 / Shelf 4 - (American
clubs and associations continued) - Trophies, ribbons
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Various race programs:
(a) A Mystic Weekend of Rowing! 2007 Saturday 15 Sept 5th Annual Battle
Between the Bridges Regatta/ Sunday 16 Sept 16th Annual Coastweeks Regatta;
(b) 1924/ Twentieth Annual Regatta of the American Rowing Association/
American Course/ Schuylkill River/ Philadelphia, Pa./ May 31st;
(c) 5th Head of the Charles Regatta Sunday October 26th 1969.6-7/04/1991;
and (d) San Diego/ Crew Classic/ Crown Point Shores – Mission Bay/ April 6 &
7, 1991 |
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Log book of
the “Eutaw Club” of Augusta, Georgia, with material on the 1879 Charleston
Regatta |
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Trophy by
Reed & Barton “N.E.A.R.A./ Labor Day/ Boston 1896 Eight Oared Shell/
Senior” MSM 2005.110.17 (TEW) |
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Prize mug
by Manning Bowman & Co “1913/ Detroit River Regatta/ Eight-Oar” |
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Prize plaque
“Middle States Regatta Association 1814 - 1914” MSM 2005.110.25 (TEW) |
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Prize goblet
S[an] D[iego] R[owing] C[lub]/ Fall Regatta/ 1916/ Junior Four |
Cabinet 4 / Shelf 1 - The
Schuylkill River and Navy
The oldest (1858) rowing association in America, the
Philadelphia-based Navy and Boathouse Row include some of the most notable
rowing clubs in the U.S. The river has featured not only much of the country’s
prominent racing, including the 1876 Centennial Regattas, but also the oarsmen
memorialized by the great rowing artist Thomas Eakins.
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Sheet music
“Old Rosin the Beau ... Favorite Comic Song Dedicated to the members of the
Falcon Barge by the Publisher. Philadelphia, 1838” |
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1871 Flags of the Schuylkill Navy (from
Waters and Balch, The Annual Illustrated Catalogue and Oarsman’s Manual
for 1871) [copy] [WM] |
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Sheet music
Sheet music To Castle Ringstetten./ Falls of Schuylkill, Pa./ Ringstetten
March by M.D.S./ Boston: © 1883 Oliver Ditson & Co. |
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Race programs from 1876 regattas on
Schuylkill: (a) International Amateur Regatta/
Second Day - Tuesday, August 29th ; and (b) International Rowing
Regatta / Schuylkill Navy / Seventh Day – Monday, Sept. 4th,
1876. [WM]
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Prize leather disk
“Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia Ninth Annual Regatta Awarded to Winners
of Barge Race June 2, 1883” |
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Pocket watch
by Timing & Repeating Watch Co. "Presented to Frank Muller,
Coach, By the Vesper Crews 1915." |
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Stereoview
c. 1890. “Independence Hall” (Boathouse Row) |
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Tableware
c. 1900 by Lamberton China. Demi-tasse cup, saucer and pit plate, with arms
of Undine Boat Club, from Castle Ringstetten service. |
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Trophy
1904 Schuylkill Navy Fourth July Regatta, Int. Single Sculls, Phila. Barge
Club, C.B. Wood [WM]
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Prize mug
"Philadelphia Bachelor/ Regatta/ May 12 '06/ 4-Oared Shell" MSM 2005.110.12
(TEW) |
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Booklet
_____: Bachelors Barge Club of Philadelphia. Organized July 4,
1853. [Philadelphia]: Press of Altemus & Co., 1914. |
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Prize plaque
1915 Schuylkill Navy Senior Four-Oared Shells [WM]
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Wood eng
“First Review and Regatta of the Schuylkill Navy” |
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Prize medal
1876 Centennial Regatta [NRF/F-S]
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Cabinet 4 /
Shelf 2 - (The Schuylkill River and Navy continued) and
the NAAO/USRowing
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Enameled gold medal
SN [Schuylkill Navy] Philadelphia above MDCCCLXXXII Won by/ Malta/ Walter J.
Snyder/ June 20“ 1891. |
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Prize mug
"Penna. Barge Club/ Regatta/ June 9th 1900/ Four-Oared Gig" MSM
2005.110.11 (TEW) |
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Two invitations
13/05/1906 29th Annual Regatta of the Pennsylvania Barge
Club. |
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Prize goblet
"Crescent Boat Club/ 48th/ Annual Regatta/ 6-5-15/ Four Oar Gig" MSM
2005.110.3 (TEW) |
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News photo
“Olympic Trials – Yale Winning” |
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Ticket
1888 Layburger v. Galanaugh [WM]
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Prize pocket watch
by Elgin “People’s Victory Regatta/ Philadelphia/ July 4th 1919/ Senior
Quadruple/ Scull Shell/ won by/ E. Graef” |
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Race program
1924/ Seventy-First/ Regatta/ of the/ Schylkill [sic] Navy/ and/ Olympic
Try-Outs/ Under the Auspices of the/ National Association Amateur Oarsmen/
Friday and Saturday/ June 13th & 14th [WM]
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Prize mug
c.1925 by Meriden & Co. “American Rowing Association” MSM 2005.110.2 (TEW) |
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J.E. Caldwell pewter plates made as
American Rowing Association prizes: (a) Twenty
Second Annual Regatta, Philadelphia May 31, 1926, Third Varsity Collegiate
Eight-Oared Shells. Won By Yale, John Hay Whitney (Stroke) Beating Harvard
and Pennsylvania; (b) Twenty Second Annual Regatta, Philadelphia, May 31,
1926, for First Four-Oared Shells. MSM 2005.110.19 (TEW); and (c)
Twenty Third Annual Regatta, Philadelphia, May 28, 1927, for First
Eight-Oared Shells. Won by United States Naval Academy |
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News photo
c.1940 . Famous Philadelphia oarsmen posed on Boathouse Row dock,
including Fred Plaisted, J.B. Kelly Sr., and J.W. Burk.
[DB] |
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News photo
[Penn crew, including Joe Burk] |
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Painted rectangular blocks
1996 (a) Undine boathouse (b) Penn AC boathouse |
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Race program
Independence Day Regatta/ and National Championships/ July 4th, 5th and 6th/
1958/ 100th Anniversary Schuylkill Navy |
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Various Philadelphia-related prize
medals on ribbons: (a) Middle States Regatta
Philadelphia 1959 Senior Double Sculls 150 lbs *; (b) 100th Anniversary
[1958] Schuylkill Navy Official [WM]
; (c) Schuylkill Navy – Rowing 1965/ Jr 4 Oared W/ Cox *; (d) Schuylkill
Navy Rowing Jr Double Sculls *; (e) Schuylkill Navy Rowing Match Races/
6-19-65/ Jr 4/W * [* made by Bailey, Banks & Biddle]; and (f) 1960
Independence Day and N.A.A.O. Regatta |
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Schuylkill Navy officials ribbons /
badges : (a) “Schuylkill Navy Regatta”; (b)
“Schuylkill Navy“; (c) Judges ribbon and Schuylkill Navy medallion [WM]
or [NRF/F-S] ; and (d) 1910 Committee
blue/white ribbon with crossed oars and Napoleonic head [WM]
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Cased medal on ribbon
1939 American Rowing Assoc. 1st Eights [WM]
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Cabinet 4 / Shelf 3 - National
Association of Amateur Oarsmen (now USRowing)
The first national team sport governing body in the U.S.
(1872), the N.A.A.O. was formed to supervise amateur eligibility and national
championships. It was renamed USRowing in 1981 to reflect the growth of women’s
rowing.
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Various race programs:
(a) Aquatic Edition, American Racing Programme,/ Fourth Annual Regatta of
the [NAAO],/ on the Schuykill River, Philadelphia./ First Day: Tuesday,
August 22d, 1876,/ Four Oars and Single Sculls./ Published by Official
Authority./ Regatta Committee; (b) Souvenir Program/ N.A.A.O./ Lake
Quinsigamond, Worcester, Mass., Aug. 10-11, ’06; (c) NAAO/ 37th Annual
Regatta/ [NAAO]/ Detroit, Michigan/ August 6 and 7/ 1909/ Under the auspices
of/ Detroit Boat Club; (d) Official Program/ Olympic Rowing Tryouts/ under
auspices of/ [NAAO]/ at Philadelphia, July 5-6-7, 1928; (e) Fifty-Seventh
Annual National Regatta/ [NAAO]/ August 2 and 3, 1929 on the Connecticut
River at Springfield – Massachusetts; (f) Official Program/ Rowing
Championships/ and Olympic Tryouts/ by the/ [NAAO]/ in Conjunction with/
Peoples Regatta/ Philadelphia, July 3 and 4, 1936/ under the auspices of/
Schuylkill Navy/ of/ Philadelphia; (g) National Championship Rowing Regatta/
Detroit Boat Club Centennial 1839-1939/ July 20-21-22 Official N.A.A.O.
Program; (h) 1961 Program/ [NAAO] Regatta/ Schuylkill River/ Philadelphia,
Pa./ Saturday - Sunday/ July 15th - 16th; (i) 1960 Program/
Independence Day and N.A.A.O. Regatta/ Schuylkill River/ Philadelphia, PA./
... / July 2nd and 3rd; (j) Golden Anniversary/ West Side Rowing
Club/ 1912-1962/ Black Rock Channel, Buffalo, N.Y./ [NAAO]/ The National
Regatta/ July 21-22, 1962/ Pan American Trials; (k) Rowing/ the ‘89
nationals/ July 20-23, Cooper River/ USRowing, Camden County Rowing
Foundation; and (l) National Championship Regatta/ USRowing Indianapolis/
June 24-27, 1993/ Eagle Creek Park. |
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Prize medal
“1883” “N.A.A.O.” “Eight Oared Shells” |
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medal/ribbon – 1895 double medal; 18k
gold NAAO & 18k gold Harlem Regatta Senior 8 Oared Shell w/ black ribbon
[WM] |
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Pinback button for Aug 14-15, 1903 Lake
Quinsigamond NAAO Regatta. |
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Red and blue celluloid pennant on brass
pin [obv] NAAO [rev] Olympic/ National Regatta/ Creve Coeur Lake, St. Louis,
Mo./ July 29-30, 1904 |
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Ribbon
“N.A.A.O./ Regatta/ [emblem of Nonpareil Rowing Club, N.Y.]/ Detroit, Mich./
August 6-7/ 1909.” |
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medal/ribbon – 1910 NAAO Senior 8 Oared
Shell 18k. gold medal w/ bar/black ribbon [WM]
|
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Booklet.
Fred R. Fortmeyer (compiler): 1911 Minutes of thje
Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting – National Association of Amateur Oarsmen
|
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Silk ribbon
“Trio of/ Rowing/ Regattas/ Peoria, Ill./ 1912/ C.S.A.R.A./ Aug. 5-6,/ [NAAO
device]/ S.W.A.R.A./ Aug. 7-8,/ N.A.A.O./ Aug. 9-10,/ St. Louis/ Rowing/
Club” |
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Silk ribbon
“Sesqui/ Centennial/ International/ Regatta/ National/ Association/ Amateur/
Oarsmen/ Philadelphia/ Aug. 5-6-7,/ 1926/ Guest” |
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1895 Harlem Regatta Association and
N.A.A.O. medals pinned to black ribbon mounted on holder
[WM] |
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News photo
24/07/1931. “Retains Sculling Crown” NAAO 145 lb singles winner Clark shakes
hands with Cumming. |
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Bronze pinback badge. “67th Annual
N.A.A.O. Regatta - 1939” “The Centennial - Detroit Boat Club - Est. 1839”
“Contestant” |
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medal/ribbon – 1961 National Regatta (NAAO)
w/name bar/red-white-blue ribbon [WM]
|
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_____: [cover] Rowing Guide 1968 [NAAO]
Philadelphia: NAAO, 1968. |
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Enamelled shield-shaped medal “N.A.A.O.
1970 2nd” from N.A.A.O. Championships on Cooper River, Camden, N.J. |
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_____: N.A.A.O. 1971 Rule Book
[Philadelphia]: NAAO, 1971. |
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Money clip
“N.A.A.O. Centennial 1872-1972.” |
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1949 NAAO officials ribbon |
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NAAO button Philadelphia Barge |
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1903 N.A.A.O. Quinsigamond button |
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Barlow lighter
c. 1975? USA and N.A.A.O. over oars, shield and wreath on one side. |
Cabinet 4 / Shelf 4 - (NAAO
and USRowing continued)
|
Various race programs:
(a) Thirty-eighth Annual/ Championship/ Regatta/ Friday and Saturday/ August
12 and 13, 1910/ Potomac River/ Washington, D.C./ Under the Auspices of the/
Potomac Boat Club; (b) [NAAO] Forty-Sixth Annual Regatta Official Program/
July 23rd and 24th, 1920/ Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Massachusetts (this
regatta also constituted the U.S. Olympic trials); (c) Princeton Regatta/
Rowing Championships/ of the/ National Association/ of Amateur Oarsmen/
Thursday, Friday and Saturday/ July 18, 19 amd 20, 1935/ ... / Lake
Carnegie/ Princeton, N.J.; (d) 90th National Championship NAAO Regatta/ July
31st, August 1st & 2nd, 1964/ Orchard Beach Lagoon/ Pelham Bay Park, New
York City; (e) [NAAO] 1970 National Rowing Championships/ Camden County
Park/ Cooper River, New Jersey; (f) 1992 USRowing/ National Championship/
Regatta/ June 25-28/ Eagle Creek Park/ Indianapolis; (g) 1993 USRowing
Masters National Championships/ September 9-12/ Vancouver Lake, Washington;
(h) Thomas Eakins/ Head of the Schuylkill Regatta/ Program/ Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania/ October 29, 1988. |
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Prize medal
“National/ Championship/ Detroit/ Aug. 8-9 1959/ 8 Oared Shells/ Won By”
Rusty Wailes [NRF] |
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Various NAAO badges, patches and
ribbons: three USA blazer patches; 1942 officials
badge and ribbon; and 1961 Championship ribbon with bar |
Cabinet 5 / Shelf 1 -Yale
and Harvard rowing
Yale formed the first collegiate boat club (1843), and
the 1852 race with Harvard was the first
intercollegiate athletic contest in the U.S.
The Yale-Harvard boat race was regarded as one of the country’s premier sporting
events for at least a century. The two schools have produced three Olympic
eights (Yale winning gold in 1924 and 1956 – see cabinet 7).
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Photo
[c.1859] Atalanta ‘61 [Yale sophomore crew] |
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Race program
Fall Races,/ October 16,/ 1872./ Lake Saltonstall. |
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Photo
c.1874 “Old Boat House” [pre-1875 Yale crew boathouse] |
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Prize medal
Yale/ Fall Regatta/ Lake Saltonstall/ Barge Race/ 1874 Won by/ T.H. Linsley
SW/ 76” S.S.S./ Time 13-57./ Dis. 2 M. |
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Receipt
24/05/1875 $10.00 for annual subscription to Yale University Boat Club |
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Race program
Harvard Spring Regatta/ May 29th, 1875./ Charles River Course./ First Race
Four Oared. Second Race Six Oared. |
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Ticket
“Dedication of the Yale Boat House, Wednesday Afternoon, June 9th. [1875]” |
|
Ticket
Yale University Boat Club new boathouse “Dedication Ball!/ Wednesday, June
9, 1875./ Gentleman and Ladies” |
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Newspaper
30/07/1865 New York Times full front page on Yale-Harvard race |
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Photo Aug
1876 Yale University crew with trophy for the Intercollegiate Race at
Philadelphia, Pa., Monday, Aug. 28, 1876 |
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Trophy
“Yale Harvard Boat Race/ 1881/ Yale/ 22 m. 13 sec./ Harvard 22 m. 19 sec.”
[curiously, the crew list omits the name of the coxswain, Mun Yew Chung ‘83,
who was one of the first Chinese students to attend Yale] |
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Studio cabinet photo
1881 Harvard baby in single scull |
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Prize goblet
“Harvard/ Class of 82,/ M.S. Crehore Bow/ For faithful and/ successful work/
on the/ Class Crew” |
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Race program
Boat Race Bulletin. Vol. VI, No. 1 New London, June 28, 1883 Gratis. |
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Prize tankard
“H.U.B.C.” [Harvard University Boat Club], “Class Races/ May 2, 1888/ Won
by/ Sophomore Crew” |
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Prize tankard
“Yale versus Harvard, New London, June 27th, 1890. Won by Yale. Time 21
Min. 29 Sec. Dist. 4 Miles.” |
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Photo 1890
Yale boathouse |
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H.U.B.C. bone china service
c.1920?: teacup and saucer marked H & Co. on base; and (b) plate
marked CFH & Co. on base. |
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Cover photo
07/07/1924 Time [Captain James Stillman Rockefeller in Yale
sweater] and article re Yale Olympic oarsmen travelling to Paris. |
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News photo
17/03/1926 [Cutting the ice at and around the Newell Boat House, Cambridge] |
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Photo 1934
Yale lightweights at Henley |
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Cabinet photo
c. 1887 Harvard oarsman |
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Cover photo
08/06/1965 Sports Illustrated (“Harvard Coach Harry Parker
and the World’s Best Crew”) |
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Handbill
U.S. Coast Guard relating to race course restrictions Harvard-Yale Regatta/
Friday, June 24, 1938/ Notice! By Act of Congress |
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Handbill
Harvard-Yale Regatta/ Friday, June 24, 1938 [Chairman of Harvard-Yale
Regatta Committee notice re race times and course restrictions] |
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News photo
28/06/1947 [Harvard setting a 2000 meter world record on the
Lake Washington course in Seattle] |
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Bronze medallion
“Yale-Harvard/ Regatta 100th Rowing June 19, 1965 Thames River, New London,
Conn./ 1852 1965” [NRF/Clint
Allen] |
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Sports department photo
1964 [50th reunion of Harvard junior varsity crew which won the Grand
Challenge Cup at Henley in 1914] |
Cabinet 5 /
Shelf 2 - (Yale and Harvard rowing continued)
|
Commemorative cover
“100th Anniversary Crew Race/ Lake Winnipesaukee/ August 3, 1952/ Harvard
and Yale Commemorate a Century of Intercollegiate Sports at Center Harbor,
N.H.” |
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Race program
College Union Regatta at Lake Quinsigamond Worcester July 29, 1864 First
Race Sophomores Second Race University Boats. |
|
Race program
28/07/1865 Union College Regatta on Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester [First race
Worcester 4-oar boats; Second race 6-oar University Boats] |
|
Cdv 1868
by Pach Bros [Yale six] |
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Studio cabinet photo
1874 by Notman [Yale varsity six] |
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Studio cabinet photo
1874 by Notman [Yale freshman six] |
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Race program
Boat Race,/ Springfield, Mass./ Friday, June 30, ‘76/ 4.30 P.M./ Harvard
vs.Yale. |
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Race program
Yale Spring Regatta/ Lake Saltonstall, Saturday, May 21, ’87. |
|
Race program
30/06/1893 Official Souvenir Programme of the Yale Harvard Boat Race/ New
London 1893. |
|
Commemorative cover
“First Day Cover Yale-Harvard Regatta/ on the Thames Friday, June 19, 1936”
[signed by Yale coach Ed Leader] |
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Commemorative cover
"75th Annual Regatta/ Yale – Harvard/ Boat Race/ Friday, June 25, 1937/
Thames River/ New London, Conn." |
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News photo
25/06/1937 “Harvard Varsity Defeats Yale” [before 70,000 spectators, both
crews beating the upstream record] |
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Cover col photo
Jun 2000 Yankee magazine [1999 Yale varsity celebrating
their victory over Harvard at New London] |
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Postcard
Red Top, Harvard Training Quarters, Gales Ferry Conn |
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Postcard
Harvard University Boathouse and Dormitory |
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Postcard
Yale Headquarters and House Presented by MW Plant |
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Cdv
c.1866 Harvard crew, including Crowninshield, Wilkinson and Blaikie |
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Cdv 1864
Harvard sophomore six [same as above?] |
Cabinet 5 / Shelf 3 -1869
Harvard-Oxford race
The first intercollegiate international athletic contest, the race
commanded front page coverage from U.S. newspapers, and was undoubtedly the most
significant single catalyst in the explosive growth of interest in rowing after
that date.
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Als
29/07/1869 from Richard Henry Dana Jr. to the Rev. David Lyman about
Lyman's son, an oarsman on the Harvard crew. |
|
Cdv 1869
Harvard crew |
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Cdv [Aug]
1869 "Harvard Boat Crew/ Fay Lyman Burnham Loring Simmons/ Whipple, 297
Washington St., Boston" |
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Cdv 1869
Oxford crew |
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Col lith print
“The Great International Boat Race Aug. 27th. 1869/ [Publi]shed by Currier &
Ives/ 152 Nassau St New [York]” |
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Wood eng
28/08/1869 ILN “The International University Boat-Race: The Harvard Crew
Returning from Practice” [HRR/TW] |
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Sheet music
1869 “Chawles of the H-Oxford’s, you know!” New York, Published by Wm. A.
Pond |
|
Sheet music
1869 “The International Boat Race Galop Dedicated to the Gallant Harvard
Crew Boston. Published by Oliver Ditson & Co. |
Cabinet 5 / Shelf 4 - (Yale and
Harvard rowing continued)
|
Sheet music
“The Winnipesaukee Waltz” Commemorative Edition Harvard-Yale Crew Centennial
Race August 3, 1952 Center Harbor. |
|
Race program
Harvard - Yale Official Souvenir Programme & Book of Records 25 cents 1902.
|
|
Race program
Official Book of Records and Souvenir Yale – Harvard Cornell Boat Races
New London Conn. June 22d and 23d, 1898. |
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Photo
Harvard eight at the dock |
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Prize mug
Aug 1873 IBC monogram |
Cabinets 6 and 7 are for rotating
displays
Cabinet 8 / Shelf 1 -
American colleges
In the 1860’s and 1870’s, the largest team sport spectacles
in America were provided by college crews at various venues in the Northeast.
Although baseball and football eventually claimed greater followings, collegiate
rowing continued to claim the public’s attention well into the middle of the 20th
century. Although the benefits of rowing were initially well recognized,
negative perceptions relating to elitism and adverse health effects colored
popular opinion to some degree. While popularly thought of as an East Coast
sport, two of the most successful collegiate programs are on the West Coast: Cal
Berkeley boated three Olympic gold medal eights (1928, 1932), and Washington one
(1936). Washington also produced most of the leading collegiate coaches of the
first half of the 20th century.
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Race program
Souvenir of the Fall Regatta of the Cornell Navy, on Cayuga Lake, Saturday,
October 11th, 1873 |
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Stereoview
[college six and a single sculler] |
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Photo
24/07/1871 “The Winning Crew at the First Regatta of the Rowing Association
of American Colleges” [Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst] |
|
Wood eng
02/08/1873 Harper’s “The Springfield University Regatta - The Finish.” |
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Sheet music
1874 Waverly Boat Club. “Regatta Gallop To the College Crews of America”
Boston: O. Ditson [NRF/F-S] |
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Cabinet photo
1875 “Victorious Cornell Crew 1875”
[NRF/F-S] |
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Photo
Harvard “Class Crew Never Beaten”
[NRF/F-S] |
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1903 newspaper reproduction of 1878
Columbia crew for 25th anniversary article |
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Cabinet photo
“Bowdoin College Crew, Intercollegiate Regatta, Springfield, Mass., July
1872” |
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Studio cabinet photos by Notman of
1874 collegiate varsity crews: Columbia
championship six; Cornell six-oar crew; Dartmouth six-oar crew; Harvard
six-oar crew; Princeton six-oar crew; and Yale six-oar crew
[NRF/F-S] |
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Cabinet photo
1874 by Notman [Yale freshmen six-oar crew] |
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Race program
Saratoga/ Rowing Association/ Programme for College Regatta/
Wednesday and Thursday, July 15th and 16th [Wed: Single Scull Race, Freshman
Race (Princeton, Brown, Yale); Thurs: University Race] |
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Stereoview
“Reporters’ & College Stand at Intercollegiate Regatta, Saratoga Lake,
1874.” |
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Stereoview
1874 [grandstand crowd at Saratoga regatta] |
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Ticket
“July 15 and 16, 1874./ Intercollegiate/ Saratoga Lake./ Saratoga Rowing
Association.“ |
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Stereoview
c. 1874 [crowd in rain at Saratoga regatta] |
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Ticket 1875
Intercollegiate Regatta Ball |
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Silk ribbon “National Rowing Association
of American Colleges/ University Crew/ Springfield Regatta 1872”
|
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Wooden cane
“CU 81/ Shinkel/ Harvard-Cornell/ Cornell Freshman Crew/ Owasco Lake July
17. [1878]” |
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Prize tankard
by Meriden "Spring Regatta/ B.U.B.C./ June 8th 1872 - Second
Prize/ won by/ '73” [MSM/TW] |
Cabinet 8 / Shelf 2 - (American
colleges continued)
For years, the Dad Vail Regatta was the high point of the season for colleges
that were not competitive with the major rowing programs. Regional regattas
also provided competition for the many schools that maintained less ambitious
programs.
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Pamphlet
_____: The Boating Association of the University of California.
Berkeley: Apr. 1st, 1893 |
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Program
[Cornell] Crew Rally 1914 [program for the season end rally] |
|
Book Henry
Adelbert Lyon (comp.), Cornell Verse. Philadelphia: Historical
Publishing Company, 1897. |
|
Various race programs:
(a) Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Regatta/ Washington vs. California Seward
Park Course/ May 24, 1947; (b) 1941 Dad Vail; (c) May 11-12, 2002 – Mercer
County Park, NJ. (i) ECAC/ The 10th Annual/ Avaya Collegiate Rowing
Championships; (ii) Second Annual/ Princeton International/ Rowing Regatta;
(d) Cincinnati Regatta - 1989/ East Fork Lake - June 17/ Presented by
Champion; (e) Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Seventh Annual
Championship Regatta Lake Carnegie, Princeton, N.J. May 17, 1952; (f) The
Columbia Pennsylvania Cornell Second - ‘Varsity Regatta/ Ithaca New York May
30 1901; (g) Triangular Regatta/ Harvard Syracuse Cornell/ Ithaca, N.Y./ May
30th 1902/ Cayuga Lake Course; (h) HYP Lightweight Crew Race / Goldthwait
and Vogel Cups/ Gilder Boathouse / April 26, 2003 |
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Medal on ribbon
1977 SIRA |
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Die cut chromolith. standing Cornell
oarsman |
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Dad Vail pinback medal |
|
Various boat race tickets:
1935 Childs Cup; 1905 Harvard Cornell Charles River; and
Eastern Sprints |
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1975 Eastern Association of Rowing
Colleges pinback ribbon with suspended oar |
Cabinet 8 / Shelf 3 - Intercollegiate
Rowing Association and Major Collegiate Championship Contenders
Formed in 1895 in response to Harvard and Yale’s refusal to row in
intercollegiate championship regattas after the 1870’s, the IRA attracted
world-class crews to its venues on the Hudson, the Ohio River and Lake Onondaga
(see the IRA championship trophy in Room 2). The Poughkeepsie event was usually
also attended by a fleet of yachts and trains full of spectators (see shelf 4 of
cabinet 12); the distance from the West Coast required special fund-raising
efforts for schools like Washington. Harvard and Yale began competing in the
IRA championships in 2003
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Various race programs:
(a) Intercollegiate/ Record/ Book/ Harvard-Yale-Cornell/ Boat-/ Races/
Poughkeepsie,/ June/ 24-25/ 1897; (b) Hand Book of the/ Inter-Collegiate /
Boat Races/ at/ New London, Conn.,/ June, 1891./ The Races:/ June 20th.
Columbia and Cornell Freshmen./ June 24th. Yale, Harvard and Columbia
Freshmen./ June 25th. Columbia, Cornell and Pensylvania./ June 26th;
(c) National Inter-Collegiate Crew Regatta/ July 7th & 8th, 1933/ Harvard,
Yale, Cornell, California, Washington, U.C.L.A.; (d) Poughkeepsie Regatta/
Intercollegiate Rowing Association June 21, 1947; (e) Annual 49th Regatta/
Intercollegiate Rowing Association/ Marietta, Ohio - June 16, 1951; (f) 74th
Annual/ National Intercollegiate Rowing Championships/ June 3, 4, 5, 1967/
Onondaga Lake – Syracuse, N.Y.; (g) 100th Anniversary Intercollegiate Rowing
Association National Intercollegiate Rowing Championships 1895 - 1995/ June
1, 2, 3, 1995, Cooper River, Camden, N.J. ; (h) A.R.A. on the
Hudson Intercollegiate Regatta 1900 Columbia Cornell Georgetown
Pennsylvania Wisconsin; (i) Annual Regatta/ Intercollegiate Rowing
Association/ 1907/ Columbia Cornell Pennsylvania Wisconsin Georgetown
Syracuse/ U.S. Naval Academy; - ONE MISSING? |
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Intercollegiate Regatta covers with
stamped cachets “Varsity/ Poughkeepsie Highland,
N.Y./ June 17, 1939”; “Junior Varsity/ Poughkeepsie Highland, N.Y./ June 17,
1939”; “Freshman/ Poughkeepsie Highland, N.Y./ June 17, 1939” |
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Prize tankard
1929 IRA varsity eight Columbia W. Sanford
[NRF/MSM/TSanford] |
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Ticket
1933 Intercollegiate Regatta general admission |
|
Ticket
National Intercollegiate/ Crew Race/ Yale – Harvard – Cornell/ California –
Washington/ University of California/ Los Angeles/ Long Beach Marine
Stadium/ July 8, 1933 |
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Supporter buttons
“ ‘On to Poughkeepsie’ U. of W. 1925”; “Crew 1928 Washington
Fund”; “Send 1930 Husky Crews East” |
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Gold prize watch fob or token
1926 University of Washington Intercollegiate Champions
Poughkeepsie Regatta Russell Callow Coach |
|
IRA medals on ribbons
for 1975 and 1979; IRA pins for 1949, 1959, 1961, 1973, 1977, 1982,
1987, 1992, 1998 and 2008 |
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Prize tankard
by Manning Bowman & Co. “Inter-Collegeate [sic] Rowing Association/
University Fours/ Poughkeepsie July 2nd 1901/ Cornell 1st Pennsylvania 2nd
/ Columbia 3rd” |
Cabinet 8 / Shelf 4 - Premium
collegiate felts, silks and cards
Tobacco companies just before World War I sought to
attract young smokers by issuing premiums featuring college rowing (and included
some schools that didn’t have crew programs). The premiums came in a variety of
forms, including large and small cards, large and small silks, felts (also
called “rugs”) and leathers.
|
1915 American Tobbaco Company cigarette
premium felts and silks for Annapolis, Amherst, Brown, California, Chicago,
Colorado, Columbia, Colgate, Dartmouth, Harvard, Knox, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Texas, Trinity, Utah, West Point, Wisconsin, Yale |
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1915 American Tobbaco Company cigarette
premium large format silk for Cornell |
|
Murad American Tobbaco Company cigarette
premium small format cards for George Washington, Kenyon, St. Lawrence |
|
Murad American Tobbaco Company cigarette
premium leather for Syracuse, Willards chocolate premium card for University
of Washington and Murad American Tobbaco Company cigarette premium large
format card for Texas |
Cabinet 9 / Shelf 1 -
Schoolboy rowing
As seen in the stereoviews of Eton and Radley at Henley in 1858, schoolboys have
competed with their elders for over 150 years; the Gunnery School entry in the
1956 U.S. Olympic trials provides anther fine example. U.S. schoolboy rowing,
dating to the 1870’s, was inaugurated at private schools which were modeled
after English rowing schools, but some U.S. high schools had active programs as
early as the 1890’s. Browne and Nichols, Kent and Tabor were among the first
U.S. schoolboy entries at Henley Royal Regatta; Washington-Lee High School was
the first U.S. public high school to win there, in 1964.
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Cover photo
1948 Life [Kent School oarsman] |
|
News photo
01/06/1941 “Catholic High Takes 4-Oared Race” [beating Philadelphia’s West
Catholic High School and Buffalo’s Bennett High School at the 7th Schoolboy
Rowing Association Regatta in Camden] |
|
Broadside
Regatta/ P.E.A. [Phillips Exeter Academy]/ Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1873.
[WM] |
|
News photo
28/10/1937 “Oarsmen in Winter Practice” [16-oar training barges manned by
high school boys] |
|
News photo
19/03/1930 “American Schoolboy Crew to Row in British Classic” [Kent
School eight] |
|
Photo
c.1920 by The Kimball Studio, Concord, N.H. [St. Paul’s School Shattuck
eight] |
|
News photo
28/06/1956 “Tight Finish” [Gunnery School and Navy hit the
finish in the U.S. Olympic trials] |
|
Stereoview
Eton & Radley Boat Race./ Henley, June 26th, 1858./ Eton Crew. |
|
Stereoview
Eton & Radley Boat Race./ Henley, June 26th, 1858./ Radley Crew. |
|
News photo
21/06/1939 “Sail for English Regatta” [Tabor Academy crew
before they boarded ship to travel to the Henley Regatta] |
|
Pamphlet
03/04/1999 Northern Virginia Scholastic Rowing Association/ Spring 1999/ 50
Years of Rowing Excellence. |
|
News photo
Salesian boys crew on way to schoolboy nationals |
|
Race program
65th Annual Scholastic Rowing Association of America Championship Regatta
Sandy Run Park May 21-22, 1999. |
|
Souvenir mug
“Washington-Lee Crew/ 40/ 1949-1989” Dinner honoringcoach Charles Butt |
|
Prize goblet
09/06/1880 “P.E.A [Phillips Exeter Academy] Class Races/ June 9th 1880/ Won
by “83”/ One Mile/ Time 6 Min 13 ¼ sec” |
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1967 Philadelphia Scholastic
Championships officials ribbon |
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Schoolboy’s Rowing Association officials
button |
|
Prize medal
“S.P.S.A.A. (St. Paul’s School Athletic Association) Lower School 1893 Boat
Races First Crew Shattuck” |
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Cased prize medal
1899 “Radley College Boat Club Senior Fours/ 1899” |
|
Pamphlet
1958 Schoolboy Rowing Association of America. Constitution – By-Laws –
Regatta Rules. |
|
Prize medal
1927 Harvard Athletic Association/ 1927 School Boy Rowing Association Public
School Eights |
|
Brass presentation model oar
1972 Kent School Boat Club
[WHP] |
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Identification badge
“Schoolboy Rowing Association of America”/ May 29-30, 1936/ Worcester,
Mass.” |
|
Postcard
1914 Philadelphia High School Crew winning on Schuylkill River National
Course |
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Brass model oar
c.1950 “The Sill Oar“ |
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Stock prize medal
c.2000 “New England Interscholastic/ Championships”
[WHP] |
Cabinet 9 / Shelf 2 - North
American professionals
Professional racing in North America was initially contested principally by
4-oars and pairs, often manned by brothers such as the Wards or the Biglins (of
Eakins fame), and their regattas were occasionally held in conjunction with
amateur clubs and collegiate crews (see the accompanying programs). Starting in
the 1880’s, however, the most popular professionals were single scullers, who
vied with boxers as the best known individual athletes of the day. Spurred on
by their backers and surrounded by gamblers, many were easy prey for scandal,
which quenched America’s appetite for professional rowing by the end of the 19th
century; one of the last great gatherings of the professionals was in Austin
Texas in 1895 (see souvenir medal)!
|
Broadside
1880 World’s Regatta [NRF/F-S] |
|
Souvenir glass mug
1880? Hanlan – Trickett race |
|
Race program
27/07/1866 Citizens’ and College Regatta on Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester
[Citizens’ Regatta: Single Sculls (2 miles) contested by Joshua Ward and
Walter Brown; Four-Oared Boats (3 miles) contested by, inter alia, John A.
Biglin, James H. Biglin, John J. Eckerson, Barnard Biglin and Henry Ward,
Chas. Ward, Gilbert Ward, Joshua Ward; Worcester Championship for Worcester
4-Oared Boats; College Regatta (straight sixes) First Race by Lawrence
Scientific (Harvard) v. Sheffield Scientific (Yale), and Second Race by Yale
University v. Harvard. |
|
Ticket
Ross-Plaisted rowing machine race
[NRF/F-S] |
|
Various cabinet cards
[NRF/F-S]:
1884 Wallace Ross by Carroll & Frank; c. 1884 George Hosmer by Kimball; c.
1880? Bubear by Kimball; Courtney; Hanlan; Teemer; c. 1880? Jake Gaudaur by
Ryder, Syracuse NY; c. 1880 John McKay; Brown; c. 1880? Albert Hamm by
Police Gazette;
together with various premium cards:
Charles Courtney (Between the Acts); William Beach (S.F. Hess & Co.);
William Beach (W.S. Kimball); Ned Hanlan (Old Judge); Ned Hanlan (W.S.
Kimball); Teemer (Old Judge); and Gaudaur (Old Judge) |
|
Race program
02/10/1878 Championship Race, (5 miles,) At Lachine/ Edward Hanlan/
Charles A. Courtney |
|
Stereoview
c. 1880 by Abbott “A Few of Courtney’s Prizes” |
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Stereoview
1868 Views of Lake Quinsigamond/ Regatta, 1868./ No. 14. North End Boy,
Boston I.H. Stockwell, Worcester, Mass. |
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Cdv c.
1867 James Hamill [inscribed “Hamlin The Great American Oarsman”] |
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Ticket
1866 [barge and lapstreak outrigger races] |
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Badge
“Souvenir World’s/ Championship/ Regatta Austin, Tex./ Nov 4-7 1895”
“Schwaab S & S Co/ Makers/ Milwaukee Wis” |
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Cdv
[c.1885] UL to UR: Courtney, Scharff, Morris; LL to LR: Ross, Hanlan,
Plaisted); bottom - Hanlan in his single in a studio |
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24/07/1868 Citizens’ and College Regatta
at Lake Quinsigamond [Single Scull Wherries (Two Miles) John Tyler, Jr. v.
John Mekeel; Four-oar Boats (Three Miles) includes Ward brothers; College
Regatta [six-oars at 3 miles] Harvard University v. Yale University]. |
Cabinet 9 / Shelf 3 - Boats and
builders
When all else is equal between crews, boats may determine the
winner, and the evolution of the racing shell is a fascinating subject.
America’s premier builders for most of the 20th century were the
Seattle-based Pococks, from an old English sculling family, and there is good
reason to believe that much of Washington’s success was due not only to the
local boats, but to the advice of the boat-builders.
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Waters and Balch
[WM] |
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Photo
c.1880? Likely an experimental shell designed by coach and inventor
Michael Davis to allow “syncopated rowing”, wherein one pair would enter the
water as the other pair effected their release. |
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Photo
[George Pocock working on a shell] |
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Postcard
02/02/1878 “Office of/ R.S. Johnson,/ Dealer in Oars/ ... / Boston” |
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Card for Meaney Roller Seats |
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c.1950 Pocock brass sweep oarlock
[WM] |
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1853 Page receipt for oars |
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c.1950 One pair Pocock brass sculling
oarlocks [WM] |
Cabinet 9 / Shelf 4 - (Boats
and builders continued)
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Photo
[riverside boatyard in Poughkeeepsie]
[NRF/F-S] |
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Wooden sliding seat with sliding
wheels c.1950 Pocock
[WM] |
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19c. wood & brass rudder
[WM] |
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Four sets of Garofalo oarlocks
[MSM] |
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Wooden model girder oar
c. 1920 |
Cabinet 10 / Shelf 1 -
Olympics
The Olympics have represented the epitome of athletic achievement since 1896,
and rowing has been on the Olympic program from the beginning; it is the
oldest Olympic team sport. The greatest Olympic endurance event athlete in
any sport is Britain’s Steve Redgrave, winner of five sweep oar gold medals over
five consecutive Olympics. After winning gold in every Olympics eight event in
which they competed from 1900 to 1964, except 1960, the U.S. men’s eight again
won gold in 2004 and the women’s eight came home with a silver.
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Various news photos:
(a) 1925 Vesper BC “Veteran Oarsmen Celebrate Olympic (1904)
Victory” reunion [WM]; (b) [1924]
“Jeux Olympiques de 1924. Aviron/ Le Huit des Etats-Unis” [Yale Paris
Olympics gold medal eight]; (c) 13/08/1932 "Eight-Oared Race from the Air"
(the start of the finals, won by the US, ahead of Italy, Canada and GB); (d)
1932 U.S. double sculls winning at the finish; (e) 20/08/1936 “Olympic
Winners” [Washington U.S. Olympic eight after winning gold at Grunau [HRR/TW];
(f) 1948 Cal Olympic eight training on deck of trans-Atlantic liner; (g)
1968 Harvard defeating Penn in the Olympic eights trials; and (h) 02/08/1984
“Winners of Race 48” [Still and Espeth at U.S. coxed pair trials] |
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Race program
1928 U.S. Olympic trials/NAAO championships |
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Autographed photo
[Steve Redgrave wearing Barcelona Olympics uniform and three medals
|
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Race program
1936 Olympic Trials |
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Cover photo
27/08/1972 The Philadelphia Inquirer TV Week “Vesper Boat
Club’s Olympic Rowers” [including Bill Miller] |
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Panoramic photo
1932 [all of the competing Olympic rowing teams at the Los
Angeles Games] |
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Photo 1996
Redgrave and Pinsent after winning the 1996 Olympic pairs for Redgrave’s
fourth consecutive gold in an Olympiad |
Cabinet 10 /
Shelf 2 - (Olympics continued)
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Various race programs: (a)
Rowing/ Olympic Games/ Henley-on-Thames/ 1908/ Friday, July 31st./ Amateur
Rowing Association; (b) 10/08/1928 Official day program No. 35 for Olympic
Rowing. IXth Olympiade/ Amsterdam/ 1928 [NRF/EB];
(c) Xth Olympiad - Los Angeles – U.S.A./ Rowing/ Long Beach Marine Stadium -
Saturday, August 13, 1932; (d) 11 August Tages-Programm XI Olympische
Spiele Berlin 1936; (e) London XIVth Olympiad 1948 - Rowing at
Henley-on-Thames, Monday August 9th 1948; (f) XV Olympia Helsinki 1952/
Rowing/ Helsinki/ Monday 21.7; (g) 01/09/1960 Rome Olympics; and (h)
14/10/1964 The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo/ Rowing/ Official Programme/
Toda Rowing Course; (i) 19/10/1968 Mexico Olympics ; and (j) 29/08/1972
Munich Olympics |
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1906 postcard of Olympic rowing course
at Piraeus Harbor, Athens |
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Ticket
21/05/1904 Admission to Louisiana Purchase Exposition for May 21, 1904.
[not issued for Olympic rowing races at Creve Coeur Lake, but the St. Louis
Exposition was the venue where most of the 1904 Summer Olympic Games took
place] |
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Ticket
1900 Paris Exposition ticket |
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Various Olympic rowing race tickets:
(a) 14/08/1936 Berlin; (b) 20/07/1952 Helsinki; (c) 02/09/1960 Rome; (d)
10/10/1964 Tokyo; (e) 19/10/1968 Mexico; (f) 27/08/1972 Munich; (g)
23/07/1976 Montreal; (h) 24/07/1980 Moscow; (i) 04/08/1984 Los Angeles; (j)
1992 Barcelona; and (k) 24 July/ Atlanta 1996/ Games of the XXVI Olympiad. |
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Souvenir medal
by J.C. Chaplain “Republique Francaise” “Exposition Universelle
Internationale/ 1900” Prop up |
Cabinet 10 /
Shelf 3 - (Olympics continued)
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Various Olympic rowing explanatory
and rules booklets: (a) Fifth Olympiad/ Olympic
Games of Stockholm 1912/ Rowing. Programme, Rules, and General
Regulations. Swedish Olympic Committee. ; (b) IXth Olympiad – Amsterdam
1928/ Dutch Olympic Committee/ Rowing/ Executive Committee:/ Amsterdam; (c)
Xth Olympiad/ Los Angeles/ Rowing/ 1932; (d) 1936 Rudern und Kanu -
Olympia-heft Nr. 21; (e) The Games of the XVII Olympiad/ Roma 25. VIII – 11.
IX. MCMLX/Aviron – Rowing/ Canottagio/ Reglement – Regulations/ Comitato
Organizzatore/ Roma; (f) c. 1963 Olympic Sports/ Rowing/ United States
Olympic Committee; (g) Games of The XIX Olympiad/ Mexico, D.F./ du 12 au 27
Octobre 1968/ Rowing Regulations; (h) Games of the/ XXI Olympiad/ Montreal/
1976/ Regulations/ Rowing; (i) Games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980/
Programme/ Rowing; (j) Rowing – Aviron/ Games of the/ XXIVth Olympiad/ Seoul
1988/ Explanatory/ Brochure. Seoul: Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee; (k)
and 1992 Barcelona Olympics Rowing |
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Team Manual ROWING/ Barcelona ‘92.
Barcelona: COOB ‘92, 1992. [Olympics] |
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First day cover
10/10/1962 Japan Pre-Olympic Issue III/ First Day of
Issue - Tokyo 1964 - October 10, 1962. |
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First day cover
1979 postal cover USA Moscow Olympics
[WM] |
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1972 Olympic Trials Umpires ribbon
[NRF/EB?] |
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1968 Mexico Olympics badge
[NRF/EB?] |
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1952 Olympic Trials Officials badge
Quinsigamond |
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1968 Mexico Olympic plaque |
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1964 New York World’s Fair Olympics
medallion |
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1960 Olympic Trials cardboard lapel tag |
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1948 U.S. Olympic team button |
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1996 Atlanta / Lake Lanier Olympic
parking pass |
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Pinback button “1956 Olympic Games Merv
Wood Sculling” |
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1980 postal cover Moscow Olympics FDC [WM] |
Cabinet 10 /
Shelf 4 - (Olympics continued)
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Photo
2004 U.S. Olympic men’s gold medal eight and women’s silver medal eight
[WHP] |
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1928 Olympic identification card with
entry visa, and Olympic oarsmen’s competitors card for Ernest Bayer
[NRF/EB] |
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Twelve Olympic pins and six Olympic
badges [??] |
Cabinet 11 / Shelf 1 - Women
and Rowing
Women’s rowing took hold in England in the 1890’s with
Frederick Furnivall’s founding of a club for women (featuring octuple
sculling!), and spread to other clubs, Oxford and Cambridge in the 1920’s.
European women were the first to tackle full competitive rowing, and have
largely dominated international regattas over the last 75 years. Though only
enjoying widespread support and popularity in America in the last few decades,
women’s competitive rowing has existed in various forms for over 125 years, and
a number of college and high school programs were active in the first quarter of
the 20th century, including, in addition to Wellesley, Cornell,
Syracuse and Washington. While the early clubs such as ZLAC and Oakland Women’s
tended to be more social than competitive, they provided some of the rowers that
jump-started women’s rowing in the 1960’s, with significant contributions from
the Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club, Lake Washington Rowing Club and Lake Merritt
Rowing Club. The passage of Title IX legislation in 1972 opened the doors to
explosive growth for women’s collegiate crews, and high schools programs have
followed since then. The effects of this growth, first demonstrated by Olympic
gold for the 1984 U.S. eight, are evidenced again by the 2007 victory of the
eight in the world championships.
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Wood eng
from Godey’s Lady’s Book - Vol. LXXIII 1866]. “Boating on the Lake. New
Employment for the Ladies.” |
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Wood eng
30/08/1873 Harper’s “ ‘Why Not?’ Why can’t the Ladies belonging to the
different Colleges have a Regatta of their own next year? Let the First
Prize be a Husband with a Fortune, and we think the Winning Boat will make
the Quickest Time on Record.” |
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Wood eng
1874 Harper’s New Monthly “The Rowing Lesson” [two women in craft steered by
a young man] |
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Col lith postcard
1903 by Joseph Tetlow [woman sporting a crimson “H” on her blouse and
sitting in a single scull] |
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Photo 1908
[two women in skirts sculling a pram] |
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Stereoview
c.1880? by Kilburn Brothers,— Littleton, N.H “No. 1003 After the Regatta” |
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Sheet music
1933 “A Day Without You” Lyrics Sam Coslow; Music Arthur
Rebner; Paramount Picture 8 Girls in a Boat |
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Photo
c.1920 “Oakland Women’s Rowing Club” |
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News photo
c.1907 the Furnivall women’s octuple crew |
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Photo
c.1910 Single fully dressed woman in boat |
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Photo postcard
1906 The Rowing Girls in Ballet of College Sports in Simple
Simon Simple |
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Photo postcard
1907 Frederick Furnivall coaching and coxing the Hammersmith
Girls octuple |
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Publicity photo
c. 1920 British film “The Girl in the Rowing Shorts” |
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Program
25/05/1940 [Smith College] Float Night/ May 25, 1940. |
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Article
c.1900? Pacific Monthly pp. 251-255 “The Girls’ Rowing Clubs of San
Diego Bay” by Waldon Fawcett |
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News photo
18/05/1945 “Radcliffe Varsity to Race Harvard” |
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Als
30/06/1899 by Frederick J.Furnivall, Cambridge oarsman, self-proclaimed
inventor of the outrigger, man of early English letters, first editor of the
OED, and champion of working class and women’s rowing |
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Postcard
08/01/1918 Kunalu Rowing Club [Honolulu] women’s boat club membership
invitation to “Miss Osgood” |
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News photo
26/09/1956 Boston University freshman woman Susan Sims trying out for
coxswain’s seat |
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Photo
1889- by Pach Bro’s [two Wellesley craft - “Tangier,” closer, and
“Hesperus,” farther] |
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News photo
20/05/1945 “Harvard Funsters Take Up Oars” [Students before racing, and
losing to, a Radcliffe crew] |
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News photo
04/07/1974 [Santa Clara coxswain Mimi Sherman, who was barred
from competing by Henley Regatta officials] |
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Broadside
1895 Rowing Regulations/ Wellesley College. Printed, dated October 1895.
|
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News photo
01/05/1928 "Rowing for Dear Old Wellesley" [senior and junior
crews on Lake Waban] |
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Cabinet photo
c.1890 “ ‘Float Day’ at Wellesley.” [the boats arranged in a star] |
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Program
07/06/1890 [Wellesley College] Float Day June 7, ‘90 |
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Program
1917 Event Float-Night Wellesley 1917 |
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Silver goblet
1936 “Furnivall Sculling Club/ Junior Senior Sculls/ 1936/
J Henwood” |
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Book
Constance McEwen, Three Women in One Boat. A River Sketch. London:
F.V. White & Co., [1891]. |
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Pamphlet
ZLAC Rowing Club. Founded 1892, By-laws, house rules, list of
members. San Diego: [ZLAC], [1922]. |
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Col lith blotter
c.1930 by McClelland Barclay “Atlantic Gasoline/ - uniform” |
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Silk premium
c.1900 Newport 25 [Factory No. 649. First Dist. N.Y.] |
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Premium card
Scissors rowing girl |
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Silver plate goblet
c.1900 by Reed & Barton "K.R.C./ Second Prize/ Ladies Four Oar Race/
Kennebunkport Me." |
Cabinet 11 /
Shelf 2 - (Women and rowing continued)
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News photo
29/05/1930? “College Girls Boat Races in Regents Park this Morning –
Bedford College was competing against The London School of Medicine and the
London School of Economics was matched against The London University
College.” |
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News photo
c.1930? “The Distaff Side of Rowing at Cornell” [dead heat in annual
senior-junior women’s eights race on Cayuga Inlet] |
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News photo
06/12/1930 “Women’s Rowing Race” [Oxford eight before a half mile time and
style contest, won by Cambridge] |
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Postcard
1910 “Co-eds in Rowing Tank, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.” |
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Photo by
Stearn & Sons “Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club/ Lent 1942/ Winners of
the Oxford-Cambridge Race by 3 Lengths/ [and of the] Bedford-Cambridge [Race
by] 3 1/2 [Lengths]/ [and of the] Reading-Cambridge [Race by] 1/4 [Lengths]”
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Photo June
1939 [29-year old Ernestine Bayer at ¾ slide in her single on the
Schuylkill River] [NRF/EB] |
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News photo
1966 [Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club eight on Schuylkill River]
[NRF/EB] |
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Cover photo
05/09/1965 Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday Magazine “Girls’
Rowing Club” re Philadelphia Girls’ Rowing Club. |
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Sterling silver prize medal
17/07/1909 by R. Stoll NY “L.H.Y.C./ Ladies Doubles/ ½
Mile Rowing Race/ July 17 – 1909/ 2nd Prize.” |
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Enameled badge
1955 Campionatele Europene Feminine de Canotaj Academic
Bucuresti |
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Cigarette card
1935 Deutscher Sport Bild Nr. 132 “Wanderrudern auf dem
Rhein” issued by Bulgaria Zigarettenfabrik in Dresden. |
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Cigarette card
1932 “Bulgaria Sport - Photos/ Bild Nr. 184/ Dresdener
Ruderinnen/ Bulgaria Zigarettenfabrik, Dresden A.21” |
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Cigarette card
1952 “31 Agnes Reuter roeien Serie: Deelnemers aan de
Olympische Spelen 1952/ Parade-Cigaretten” |
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Playing card
c. 2000? issued by Audi honoring Dutch Olympians, including
the Queen of spades: Harriet van Ettekoven |
Cabinet 11 /
Shelf 3 - (Women and rowing continued)
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Photo
[1974 Yale women’s varsity eight posed (standing with oars) on dock at
Derby] |
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Photo
[1967 U.S. women’s team entered in the European Championships at Vichy,
France] [NRF/EB] |
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First day cover
September 28, 1979 U.S.A. 15 cents 1980 Olympics “Joan Lind -
Women’s History Series by N.O.W. - N.Y. - No. 102”. |
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Race program
The XIV National Women’s Rowing Championships/ June 14-17, 1979 - Stony
Creek/ Detroit 79 NWRA |
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News photo
11/08/1991 "Salutes U.S. Flag" [Fidel Castro with gold medal US women's
quad at Pan Am Games in Havana] |
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Ceramic mug
“National Women’s Rowing Association/ Tioga, PA. June 19-2 1986/ U.S.
Nationals/ NWRA USA” |
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Dinner program
1984 T.C. Williams crew banquet |
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Patch 1967
NWRA |
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Sport card
Impel Marketing US Olympicards 1992 US Olympic Hopefuls No. 58 Stephanie
Maxwell-Pierson/ Rowing |
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Sport card
8/1990 Sports Illustrated Kids Kris Karlson - Rower/ Weston, Connecticut |
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Postcard
Sonderpostkarte Ruder-WM/ Duisburg/ 27.8-4.9 ‘83 [20 autographs of 1983 US
women’s team] |
Cabinet 11 /
Shelf 4 - (Women and rowing continued)
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Cover photo
29/06/1913 The New York Herald Magazine Section “Fast Rowing
on Lake Waban by Wellesley Crews” |
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Photo 2007
[World championship U.S. Women’s eight beside their shell, the “Torrey
Cooke”] [WHP] |
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Col illus
c.1955 “Josie threw every effort into her task and the St. Katherine girls
responded gallantly.” |
Cabinet 12 / Shelf 1 - Canadian
rowing
From the world champion Paris four of 1867 to Ned Hanlan, the greatest
individual sculler of the 19th century, to its men’s Olympic gold
medal eight of 1984, Canada has consistently produced some of the world’s best
rowers. One of the most courageous stories of recent history is that of Silken
Laumann’s return from a devastating injury to medal in the 1992 Olympics.
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Photo
“Late George Brown, Nova Scotia oarsman. Born Feb. 7, 1839, Jerring Cove,
N.S. Died Halifax July 8, 1875” |
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Cdv New
Brunswick’s Oarsmen Champions of the World/ Paris Regatta/ 8th July 1867
|
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Cdv 1867
“Champion Oarsmen of the World” [“Paris Crew” who won the first
international rowing contest] |
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Card paper
c.1970 “Canadian Association of Amateur Oarsmen/ To An Oarsman” |
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Wood eng
26/07/1879 Canadian Illustrated News “The Hanlan-Elliott Race for the
Championship of the World” |
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Wood eng
c.26/07/1879? Canadian Illustrated News “The Hanlan Reception – Departure
from Niagara on Board the Chicora” |
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Program
[1-7]/08/1953 Coronation/ Regatta/ Programme/ 1953 Price 10c./ Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II |
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Sheet music
1882 Composed for / inscribed to Mr. Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, Ont. (King
of the Oar.) The Magic Boatman |
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Wood eng
26/07/1879 Canadian Illustrated News “Hanlan in His Boat” [fanning himself
while a competitor to catch up] |
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Three cdvs of Ned Hanlan
[WM]:
c.1884 in jacket, tie and overcoat; in studio pose at catch; and in studio
pose (“As he is, As he was”) |
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Book
Robert Sinclair Hunter, Rowing in Canada Since 1848 Hamilton: Davis-Lisson
Limited, 1933. |
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News photo
xx/xx/1928 “The Canadian double scull with J Wright and JS Guest who beat
the Dutch” |
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Photo
[c.1911?] newsprint photo of “Ottawa Eight of 1909, 1910, 1911” |
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Postcard
1932 “Leander B.C. Olypmic [sic] Eight of 1932" - GB or Canada?
[HR?] |
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Autographed photo
Silken Lauman |
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Various postcards:
(a) Canadian Henley Regatta “The Finish”; (b) Winnepeg, Winners Sr. Int.
Four Oared Shell Race/ Time 6:35 N.A.A.O. Peoria 1912; and (c) Lou. F.
Scholes/ Amateur Champion Sculler of the World./ Winner of Diamond sculls,
Henley, 1904 |
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Race program
Xerox presents The Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, August 9-13, St.
Catharines, Ontario, Canada/ 1995. |
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Prize goblet
“Lachine Regatta/ First Prize/ Double Scull Skiff Race/ Zigzag Winner/ Augt.
3rd, 1867” |
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Prize medal
1933 “Aquatic CNE Day” “Canadian National Exhibition
International Regatta” “Westsides R.C. 2nd Sr. Fours” |
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Celluloid pinbacks c.1905?:
(a) “The World’s Champion Amateur Oarsman/ Lou Scholes” and (b) “Gaudaur/
Oarsman” |
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First day cover
1980 Canada Ned Hanlan
[WM] |
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Various Canadian premium silks:
Don Rowing Club, James Bay Rowing Club and Hamilton Rowing Club |
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Silk premium
“Rowing” |
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Ribbon
“[Dons pennant]/ Toronto/ Don Rowing Club/ Royal Canadian Henley/ Regatta/
St. Catherines/ July 27th and 28th/ 1923” |
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Prize mug
“J. Joy 2./ Jr. 135 Lb. Eight” [City of Toronto] “1951” |
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Prize goblet on wooden plinth
“Renforth/ 1920/ Robert Belyea” |
Cabinet 12 / Shelf 2 - The
Global Reach of Rowing
Between the spread of rowing throughout the British
empire (especially in Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa) and the
interest in the sport that culminated with the formation in France of FISA, the
first global team sport governing body, in 1892, rowing has been enjoyed and
celebrated in many countries around the globe for over 150 years. European
countries have won more Olympic rowing events than the rest of the world, by a
large margin.
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Race program
1988 Cadbury Kings Cup & National Rowing Championships/ 200 Years/ of
Rowing/ Commemorative Programme/ 1788 – 1988/ Nepean River, Penrith, New
South Wales/ 6th-10th April, 1988. |
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Photo
“Regimental Crew Poona Feb ’83 won the Garrison Boat Race v. A.E. 2nd
Cavalry, 14th N.I. and 16th N.I. boats. “ |
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Photo
“Llegada en el Tigre (R.A.) 1° San Fernando (Giorgio) 2° Club Nal. de
Regatas (I.A.Gil) 3° Teutonia (Remagen) Senior Single Scull Regata
Internacional Ano 1936 (Marzo)” |
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News photo
20/06/1936 “The Marlow Regatta at Marlow-on-Thames” [Tokyo Imperial
University crew] |
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Cover illus
1897 Jugend |
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Prize goblet
English and Scotch Races Four Oars Presented by English and Scotch Ladies
Yokohama 7th October 1875 Won by England |
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c.1900 14K? gold? pinback w/ "ORC"?
[Otago Rowing Club?] |
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Various prize medals:
(a) [silver] “Regatta 7 de 7bro Rio Grande do Sul 1852” [Empire of Brazil];
() [gold] City Rowing Club [Ballarat, Melbourne, Australia]/ Junior Members/
Trial Fours/ Octr. 1873; () “Championnats de Paris et de France/ 4 Rameurs/
1er Prix/ 1906” [HRR/TW]; () c.1930 on ribbon “Union des Clubs D’Aviron
D’Alexandrie” [Egypt]; () “S” and ”t” intertwined in “R”, “G” “1899” “14 –
6 - 1931” “[Illegible] K.B.”; (d) “XXXII/ Frankische/ Verb. Rud./ Regatta
Wurzberg/ 1 Juli/ 1934”; () “Internat Regatta Zurich” “I. Preis/ Senior
Achter/ 1.2. VII. 1916”; () K R & AC [Kobe Rowing and Athletic Club] 1922/
Junior/ Fours; () “Mosel und Saar/ Regatta Verband Trier/ Regatta/ in/ Trier/
5-6 Juni/ 1926; () EMTE/ 1930/ 1. dij [Hungarian? coxed four top of the
slide]; () c.1930 “Cercle de L’Aviron de Lyon – Fonde en MDCCCXC”; () “XII
Intern. Regatta D. Stuttgarter Rudergesellsch.v 1899” “14 Juni/1931”; ()
“Frankfurter/ Regattaverein Frankfurter/ Altherrn u./ 34 Spat – Ruder –
Regatta/ 8.u.9.9.1956”; () Federatia Romina/ de Sporturi Nautice/ [d emblem
of oarsman]/ Regata Snagov/ canotaj 1965; () |
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1935 Tokyo Imperial University Rowing
Club bronze with silver gilt boat race fob/medal in the original fitted
case. [obv] TOUKYOU TEIKOKU DAIGAKU SOUTEIBU (Tokyo Imperial University
Rowing Club). Inside the silver gilt boat is the kanji SOU (Row). Under that
it is dated SHOWA 10 (1935). [rev] MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANA (A Healthy
Mind in a Healthy Body). The maker's decal is in the lid of the case: Kadoya
of Tokyo. |
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Prize goblet
S.R.C./ Henli Regatta/ June 3-4, 1917/ Griffins Pair
[Shanghai Rowing Club] |
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Race program
Australian Henley Melbourne/ Amateur Regatta 22nd Annual Regatta Upper Yarra
Saturday, 27th October, 1928 |
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Medallion
1938 “1888-1938” [commemorating the 50th anniversary of a Greek rowing
club/association] |
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shield hanging on ribbon “27-28 Aug/
1949” “Regatta der/ Ruder-/Gesellsch./ Wiesbaden-Biebrich 1888” ”Madler/
Mainz” |
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16/03/1988 New Zealand 40c Koru stamp
and cachet “New Zealand Amateur/ Rowing Association/ Centenary/ Wanganui/ 16
March 1988” with image of “River Avon, Canterbury Rowing Club, Boatsheds,
Christchurch, N.Z.” p/m 16/03/88 Wanganui |
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1909 Bronze circular medal [obv] port
stern quarter view of single sculler at mid stroke, w/ coxed four and eight
in distance; recessed “Sporting Dunkerquois. Regates de 1909” around wreath
with blank center field. Edge stamped “Bronze”. |
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27-28/06/1909 Circular white metal
medal [obv] woman in classical Greek gown standing with arms outstretched;
laurel leaves to L and R of head; [L] Frankfurter Regatta – Verein E.V. [R]
Regatta am 27. & 28. Juni 1909 /s/ Rettenmaier 07. |
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1930 Sterling? silver shot cup with red
enameled flag lettered “KR&AC” [Kobe Rowing and Athletic Club per vendor]
and engraved “Junior Fours/ Autumn Regatta/ 1930” and stamped on bottom with
Chinese/Japanese? hallmark? Height 6.0cm |
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14/06/1931 Silver-colored pinback
wreath with inset enamelled flag with blue and white horiz stripes and
rampant horse on yellow field in UL quarter [obv] (on small shield below
flag) “14 Juni 1931” [rev] L “13 Stuttgarter/ Ruder-Regatta/ II. Achten”;
R “Pres v. Mineralbach?/ Berger-Urquell/ Stuttg...Berg”; B “Ehrenpreis/ [/]
von Vorstand/ Stuttgerter Mineralbach/ Berg A.-G.” |
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1936 Light gray rectangular medallion [obv]
standing oarsman holds an oar horizontally across his midriff, with another
oar lying horizontally behind his feet, all over “Leipziger Regatta Verein”
[rev] pennant above “Ruder/ Regatta/ Leipzig/ 1936” above shield
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1936 Enameled silver-colored screw-back
badge. Blue and white enamel letters “SNL” on horiz rectangle above smaller
horiz rectangle engraved “Tete de Riviere” above smaller horiz rectangle
engraved “Skiff”, all over four adjacent upright oars emerging above and
below, the blades engraved “1”, “9”, “3” and “6” Screw wheel stamped
“Fraisse Demey 191.R.du.Temple.Paris” 3.6cm x 2.8cm |
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1937 Circular bronze medallion by
Remeny [obv] “75 Ev” over “Osszetartasban” [rev] vertical oar bisects
surface, splitting “18 - 62” at top, over wreath with horizontally flying
ribbons over “Nemzeti Hajos/ Egylet” over stylistic water waves over “19 -
37” |
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Prize silver mug
“Buffalo Regatta/ 29th Sept. 1885/ Silver Sculls/ Won by/ W.H. Fuller
E.L.R.C.” |
Cabinet 12 / Shelf 3 - (The
Global Reach of Rowing continued)
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Sheet music
c.1920 “Bien Tirao - Gran Tango Milonga - Dedicado a los distinguidos socios
del Club de Regatas ‘Avellaneda’ ” |
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News photo
26/04/1942 “Club Nautico Hacoaj” [eight women and a man, members of this
Buenos Aires, Argentina club] |
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Photo
YEAR? KSBC Henley Women’s Regatta
[WHP] |
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Cover illus
Anno XXViii – No. 8 1° Agosto 1928 Anno VI/ la Lettura/ ... / Milano
[women in offset seating oarlockless hull] |
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Race program
12-14/8/1960 [FISA]/ women’s european/ rowing championships/ 12-13-14
August 1960/ welsh harp willesden england |
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Race program
The First/ Henley Women's Regatta/ Saturday 18th June 1988/
Henley-on-Thames/ Official Programme |
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Mettlach / Villeroy and Boch stein
1895 [left panel of coxed four; right panel of single sculler] |
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News photo
17/06/1924 “Prince Henry of Holland Presents Gift to Women’s Crew”
|
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Various postcards:
(a) 31/08/1901 Hip Hip Hurrah! Regatta Ausschuss Feuchten
Gruss! [comic panels of oarsmen wielding oars like clubs and lances]; (b)
1905 Naini Tal and Ranikhet Regatta Parsi Sah, Naini Tal [India]; (c)
c.1905? "The Finish – East London first, Cape Town second, Port Elizabeth
third (1st. Zambesi Regatta)”; (d) c.1905? Victoria Falls Regatta. The East
London crew, the four-oared champions of Zambesi; (e) 17/05/1905 33 Asnieres
- Equipe du “Rowing Club” au pont d’Asnieres/ B.F. Paris [gig eight posed
near the catch]; (f) 1906 Tasmanian Crew, Interstate Champions, 1906.
[Australia]; and (g) c. 1920 Iraqi rowing club; |
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Sport card
1978 Editions Rencontre SCULLING 32-22 Corinne Le Moal/ A Rosy Future |
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Trophy
1911 brass ostrich Munich junior eights |
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Sport card
1979 Editions Rencontre Aviron Renee Camu [French sculling champion 1956-70;
FISA silver medals 1963, ‘65 ‘68] |
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News photo
10/04/1936 “(Wo)manning the Sweeps” [Lyons womens’ eight practicing for the
Thames Head of the River] |
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Cdv c.
1865 of straight pair in India? |
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News photo
1965 Ratzeburg defeating Vesper in the Grand at Henley |
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Badges, patches, medals and pins
[WM, WHP, TEW] ?? |
Cabinet 12 / Shelf 4 - Spectators,
Boats and Trains
From sitting on grandstands and lakeshores in sun and rain
(see stereoviews of 1874 regatta on shelf 1 of cabinet 8) to riding trains and
boats, spectators at regattas have either had to forgo the convenience of a
stadium seat or settle for a view of a portion of the race. These tickets
allowed fans to ride trains following the crews down the course.
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Flyer
“Great Intercollegiate/ Boat Races/ Between the Universities of/ Columbia,
Cornell,/ Georgetown, Pennsylvania,/ Syracuse and Wisconsin,/ Tuesday, June
28th, 1904/ West Shore Railroad” |
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News photo
c.1930? “New Haven Road Rushes Construction on Steel ‘Travelling
Grandstands’ for Harvard-Yale Event” |
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Steamship ticket
1905? The New England Navigation Co./ New Haven Line.
Yale-Harvard Boat Race. |
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News photo
c.1915 Observation Car at Poughkeepsie Races [packed train sitting on
track, with spectators visible on hillside beyond] |
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Flyer
28/06/1878 “Yale and Harvard Regatta New York, New Haven & Hartford R.R./
Shore Line Division./ The Special Train” |
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Flyer
Harvard-Yale-Cornell Boat Race At New London, June 22d, 1898. Special Train,
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad |
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Flyer
06/05/1939 Yale Columbia Pennsylvania/ Triangle/ regatta/ Saturday/ May/ 6/
on the Housatonic River/ The New Haven R.R. |
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Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race/ Saturday,
30th March, 1957/ Steamer ticket/ Price L1:10:0/ Admit Bearer to the
“Royalty” |
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Postcard
1906 Following the Race, Observation Train, Ithaca, N.Y. [shot down the
length of a packed open train along the lake] |
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Various observation car tickets:
() “New London Northern Rail Road Yale-Harvard Boat Race 1888 Observation
Train” Car No. 19; () 1890 Yale-Harvard ; () New London Northern Rail Road/
Central Vermont Railroad Co., Lessee/ Yale-Harvard Boat Race 1891
Observation Train; () 1900 Yale-Harvard University Boat Race. Central
Vermont Railway; () West Shore Railroad/ Intercollegiate Regatta/
Poughkeepsie-Highland Course/ June 26, 1907; () 1908 Yale-Harvard ; () West
Shore Railroad/ Intercollegiate Regatta/ Poughkeepsie-Highland Course/ June
21, 1913...$2.50...Car 20; () West Shore Railroad/ Intercollegiate Regatta/
Poughkeepsie-Highland Course/ June 28, 1915...$3.00...Car 15; () [samples]
1920 Yale-Harvard Boat Race Observation Train tickets for Freshman and
Varsity races; () 16/06/1933 N.Y.,N.H.&H.R.R. Car 12 Observation Train for
Harvard-Yale Boat Race; () Cornell University Athletic Association Spring
Day Regatta Yale Princeton Navy Cornell May 18, 1935; and () 1941
IRA |
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Ticket 1915
Harvard- Cornell |
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Postcard
“Don’t forget the Regatta” |
Cabinet 12 /
Shelf 5 - (Spectators, Boats and Trains continued)
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Flyer 1969
Harvard-Yale observation train promotional flyer |
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Flyer
15/06/1968 Flyer [printed in red and oriented to Harvard fans]
promoting the Harvard Yale regatta observation train |
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Flyer
15/06/1968 Flyer [printed in blue and oriented to Yale fans] promoting the
the Harvard Yale regatta observation train |
Cabinet 13 / Shelf 1 -
International regattas
Dating to at least 1867, crews have crossed national
boundaries to compete for rowing honors. From the victory of the Canadian four
at the 1867 Paris regatta, to the English crews at the 1876 Centennial regatta,
to British Empire, European and World championships, some of the best rowing in
the world can be seen without an Olympic ticket.
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Various race programs:
(a) Official Programme/ Friday/ July 4th/ Royal/ Henley Peace Regatta/ 1919;
(b) FISA Men's and Women's European Championships 50. Mistrovstvi/ Evropy/
ve Veslovani/ Praha 18.-27. Srpna 1961; (c) FISA World Rowing
Championships/ St. Catharines/ August 22-29, 1999/ St. Catharines, Ontario,
Canada; (d) Internationale Ruderregatta/ Regates internationales a l'aviron/
Luzern/Rotsee 7./8./9. Juli 1972; (e) 8-11/9/1966 11. Championnats du Monde
a L'Aviron/ Bled/ Program/ FISA; (f) FISA III World Rowing Championships/
2-6 September 1970/ St. Catharines, Canada; (g) Exposition Internationale/
Coloniale et d’Exportation Generale/ Amsterdam./ 1883./ Programme/ des/
Courses internationales/ a l’Aviron et a Voiles/ sur l‘Y Vendredi 6 Juillet
1883/ et/ sur le Zuiderzee Samedi 7 Juillet 1883; (h) British Empire Games/
Auckland 1950 New Zealand/ Rowing/ Monday, 6th February/ at/ Karapiro Lake;
and (i) 27/8-7/9/1959 III Pan American Games |
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Postcard
1912 European Rowing Championships Geneva |
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News photo
04/07/1962 “Russians Win International Regatta” [beating Vesper, Cornell,
Washington, St. Catherine’s and West Side] |
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Cover wood eng
01/06/1872 Graphic “The International Boat Race - The
American Crew at Biffen’s Yard” [Atalanta] |
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Cdv Jun
1872 “The Atalanta Crew” |
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News photo
24/12/1974 “Nile Race” [Cambridge, Harvard, Egyptian police, Egyptian
universities, Yale and Oxford] |
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Enameled pinback badge
[European rowing championships?] Trebon 29-30.VI.1935 II
Mezinarooni/ Veslarske Zavody |
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Souvenir goblet and egg cup
1979 Bled World Championships
[WHP] |
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Postal covers
1932 European Championships
[WM] |
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8-11/11/1966 Yugoslavia 1 d Bled
[regatta?] green and 5 d Bled [regatta?] blue |
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Pamphlet
1966 Federation Internationale des Societes D'Aviron / (F.I.S.A.) / Statutes
/ Rules of Racing and Regulations |
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Model oar blade mounted on stand
1997 Hazewinkel World Junior Rowing Championships
[WHP] |
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Pin-back badges:
(a) 1955 F.I.S.A. Championnats D’Europe A L’Aviron Belgique; (b)
1961 FISA European rowing championships Prague - 50th anniversary Cinovnik
[competitor]; and (c) 1963 FISA MOCKBa [Moscow]. |
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Enamelled badge
1966 Championnats du Monde FISA/ a l’Aviron/ Bled
Yougoslavie Rameur [Competitor] |
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Prize medal
1934 by L Fraisse Comite des Regates Internationales de Paris Championnat
Paris a la Mer 1934 |
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Cased prize medal
1925 Federation Internationale des Societes d’Aviron
Championnats d’Europe / Prague |
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Ticket
1970 FISA Worlds St Catherines |
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Various patches:
1958 European Championships Great Britain team; 1978 World Champonships;
1978 FISA World Champonships [Karapiro] Australia team; 1979 FISA World
Champonships Bled; 1979 World Champonships New Zealand team |
Cabinet 13 / Shelf 2 - Coaches
and Training
Whether reading the inscrutable words of Steve Fairbairn or
listening to the inscrutable advice of Harry Parker, crews rise or fall by the
talent of their coaches, and coaches, in turn, must understand the intricacies
of training routines to get the most out of their crews. Bicycles, horses and
megaphones have given way to launches and amplified speakers, but the importance
of good coaching to successful rowing has never varied.
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News photos:
(a) 19/04/1933 “Coaches Yale’s Varsity Crew” [Ed Leader at the Bob Cook
boathouse]; (b) 26/03/1932 “Syracuse Frosh Pull for Their Alma Mater” [Ned
Ten Eyck replacing his sick father James as coach]; (c) 04/02/1932 “When
Lions Take to the Water” [Columbia oarsmen in the tanks under coach Dick
Glendon]; (d) 20/04/1929 “University of Wisconsin Crews Limber Muscles
Sawing Famous Douglas Fir Trees”; and (e) 26/01/1946 “Ex-Prisoner of War
Strokes Oxford Crew” [R.M.A. Bourne, a 5-year POW, practicing] |
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Photo
c.1890? by Pach Bros “Yale gymnasium” [Yale’s innovative rowing tank, shown
with oars shipped] |
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Article
Jul 1894 Harper’s New Monthly Magazine “The Harvard and Yale Boat Race -
Observations of a Harvard Man” by W.A. Brooks, M.D. [illustrations by
Charles Dana Gibson] |
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Book
[Edwin Dampier Brickwood], The Arts of Rowing and Training, by
‘Argonaut’. London: Horace Cox, 1866. |
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Two pamphlets
“Rowing Notes” by S. Fairbairn. [Printed by] Spalding, Cambridge. Another
printed by Crowther & Goodman, London |
Cabinet 13 /
Shelf 3 - (Coaches and training continued)
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News photos:
(a) 04/05/1932 “Glendon Aids Son at Columbia” [Richard Glendon Sr. in launch
with Richard Glendon Jr.]; (b) 22/06/1946 “All But the Host” [coaches Logg,
Bowles, Atkenson, Sanford, Ebright, McMillin and Walz – no Ulbrickson]; (c)
16/02/1935 “Training for Spring Regattas” [coach Whiteside with Harvard
crew in Newell Boathouse tanks]; (d) 18/05/1940 “Mentor of Harvard Crew,
Cambridge, Mass.” [Tom Bolles]; and (e) Jun 1931 “Bringing a Strong Crew
Eastward for Regatta” [Cal coach Ky Ebright] |
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Photo
[c.1930?] “Coach Ten Eyck of Syracuse University Crews” [on a dock speaking
through a megaphone] |
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Coaching megaphone
– pat. 1899 [WM] |
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Stroke watch
by Gallet ca. 1960
[WM] |
Cabinet 13 / Shelf 4 - Officials
When the crew goes to the start, the coach steps aside and
the race official takes over. Competent officials are critical to fair races
and well-run regattas and few contributors to rowing do as much for so little
recognition. This display of the badges of U.S. official Ernie Bayer testify to
the length and breadth of his service.
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Ceramic figure
01/07/2001 “An Old Heavy” [James Gee Pascoe Crowden, C.U.B.C. 1951 and
1952, Bedford & Pembroke, ‘Champion of the Cam’] by Renaissance Fine Bone
China of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. No. 126 of an edition of
500. [WHP?] |
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41 officials badges worn by Ernest
Bayer [NRF/EB] |
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Official’s badge with ribbon
1960 [worn by Jack Beresford]. “Willesden” “Championnats/
D’Europe a L’Aviron/ FISA 1960 Angleterre |
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Brass hand bell used by race umpire to
recall crews [WHP] |
Cabinet 14 / Shelf 1 - Pop
and bling
One measure of the popularity of any phenomenon is the
extent to which it appears in popular culture. Just as the sheet music
scattered around this room, the advertisements, toys, household items, jewelry
and other artifacts in this display provide a sense of the cultural penetration
of rowing in the late 19th and early 20th century. The
first printing of Cole Porter’s “I Want to Row on the Crew” is here in the Yale
undergraduate show program that he wrote.
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Sheet music
1852 “Row, row [sic; lyrics of chorus give familiar three “row, row, row”]
your boat or the Old Log Cabin” |
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Wood eng advertisement
[c. 1860] “Clos’ter Regatta Shirtings” [coxed gig four in
striped shirts and boaters] |
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Cover illus
22/07/1916 Collier's rowing and boating cover story,"The
Strolling Of Little Willie Little" by James Hopper illus by Paus
|
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Six cigar box labels
[port oar with scarf], Flor Fina, Hanlan Cigar, Meisterschaft, Good Stroke
and George Harris [NRF/F-S] |
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Cover illus
10/04/1852 ILN “The Oxford and Cambridge Eight-Oared Boat
Race. - Sketched Between Putney and Mortlake. “ [HRR/TW] |
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Advertisement
[c.1925?] for Herbert Tareyton cigarettes [man in morning dress on a boat
raft with two oarsmen holding their oars] |
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Framed image
“messing about in boats” quote from Wind in the Willows
[WHP?] |
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Cast iron pull toy
c. 1890 [eight oar shell] |
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Walking stick
c. 1890 with metal handle chased with crossed oars and
sculler |
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Ceramic figure
c.1900? [standing girl wearing sailor-style jumper, holding
an oar upright] |
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Ceramic figure
c.1900? [standing boy in rowing outfit holding an oar
upright in one hand and a winner’s wreath in the other] |
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Screw cap bottle
c.1933 “Bobby Pearce’s Universal Liniment” [photo of Bobby
Pearce Champion Sculler of the World 1933] |
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Cabinet photo
[three women in boat] |
Cabinet 14 /
Shelf 2 - (Pop and bling continued)
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Advertisement
09/09/1916 Saturday Evening Post Firestone – Might Makes Right [two eights
pass under a Firestone tire arch] |
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Trade cards
US Hotel, Chaffee (2); Henderson & Co. (6); Buffords (11)
[NRF/F-S] |
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Trade card
1878 [“Bufford’s Comic Sheet - No. 419”] “His First
Lesson” |
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Trade card
1878 [“Bufford’s Comic Sheet - No. 419”] “The Favorite”
|
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Stamps – 2
pages (18 and 17)
[WM] |
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Trade cards
– caricatures [Y] (3) |
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Cast bronze figure
c.1899 [young boy sporting a black eye, and a jersey
inscribed “99,” and clasping an oar, a football and a baseball] |
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Medal on ribbon
c.1899 [young boy sporting a black eye, and a jersey inscribed “99,” and
clasping an oar, a football and a baseball] |
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Cceramic cup and saucer
c.1910 “Yale Boat House New Haven” [the Adee Boat House] on
cup |
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Silver perfume vial
c.1890 by Tiffany & Co.? [motif of four oar blades surrounded
by cresting waves] |
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Sterling demitasse spoon
c.1920? Indian head on handle and “Canadian Henley Regatta”
engraved in bowl. |
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Sterling silver tea spoon
c.1900 oar shaped handle and a fish attached with a line
from its mouth to the base of the blade |
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Two sterling silver enamelled hat
pins Yale and Harvard |
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Sterling spoon
c. 1891 by Ellis Sterling [Pair of oars roped together; bowl
is stamped “Toronto”] and smaller spoon of same design |
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Ceramic Limoges ash tray
c.1900? [three dogs rowing, one coxing, and a dark blue pennant with “Y”
[Yale?] flying from stern] |
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c.1900 Pair of sterling silver tea
spoons by S.H. Kirby with gilded bowl and handle with blue enameled "Yale"
on blade at end. |
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Various coins (L to R):
(a) [silver] 1974 Elizabeth II Canada Montreal 1976 Olympiade XXI Olympiad 5
Dollars; (b) [gold] 1978 USSR 100 Rubles XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980 [rowing
course finish stands]; (c) [silver?] 1989 Niue XXV Olympic Games Barcelona
1992 50 Dollars; (d) [silver proof] 1989 Viet Nam 100 Dong Barcelona 1992;
(e) [silver/virenium?] 1999 “Gibraltar Elizabeth II 1899-1999 Mediterranean
Rowing Club Centenary L5; (f) [cupro-nickel?] 2000 Australia Elizabeth II
Sydney 2000 5 Dollars; (g) [copper-nickel] 2004 Belarus 1 Ruble, designed
by S.P.Zaskevich and S.V. Nekrasova; (h) 1999 Benin 200 francs Sydney
2000 |
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2002 Cover to National Rowing Foundation
Raffle ticket book, appropriating image from Falk Collection/NRF
[WHP] |
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Premium/trade card
1888 Thes de la Caravane/ Edition des Thes de la Caravane/ Le Vainquer du
Championnat/ Lith. G. Bataille Paris |
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Premium/trade card
c. 1890 Stollwercksche Chocolade Preisgekronte Gruppe 43. No. 1. Fur
Stollwerck’s Sammel-Album No. 2 |
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Premium/trade card
c. 1890 Stollwercksche Chocolade/ Ruder-Sport Gruppe 180. No. 3. Fur
Stollwerck’s Sammel-Album No. 4 |
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Silver gilt and enamel prize brooch
c. 1900 fashioned in the shape of a clam shell
picturing the Detroit Boat Club “Four Oared Gigs” |
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Candy tin
c.1970 [Swiss mint tin with two scullers on cover]
[WM] |
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Candy tin
1928 [reproduction Van Melle Toffees, Breskens Holland. Olympische Spelen
1928] |
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Toy figure
2001? Dick Ericson bobblehead doll. |
Cabinet 14 /
Shelf 3 - (Pop and bling continued)
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Cover illus
10/04/1909 Tip Top Weekly “They handled that dainty yet
sturdy shell lovingly, for upon it depended the hopes of Yale” |
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Cover photo
05/08/1996 Newsweek “An Olympian’s moment of silence” |
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Cover illus
25/06/1933 Street & Smith’s Sport Story Magazine [illus by
E.K. Bergey for “The Yellow Shell” by T.W. Ford] |
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Stereoviewer
c. 1910 |
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Stereoview
Brown Freshman College Regatta 1870 [straight six at the dock] |
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Musical program
The Yale University Dramatic Association Presents Paranoia at the Annual
Smoker April 24, 1914. First printing of Cole Porter’s famous song “I Want
to Row on the Crew”. |
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Cover illus
Jul 1913 The Popular Magazine [illus by Hibberd V.B. Kline
for “Twenty Years After” by Ralph D Paine] |
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1905 Athlete’s Weekly |
Cabinet 14 / Shelf 4 - (Pop and
bling continued)
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Pulp juvenile magazine
02/05/1924 Work and Win “Fred Fearnot’s Winning Oar; or, A
Four Mile Pull to Victory” by Hal Standish |
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Cover photo
22/07/1984 The Washington Post / Parade A Portrait Of Olympian Courage The
Amateur by David Halberstam [Tiff Wood] |
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Pulp juvenile magazine
30/01/1897 Tip Top Weekly col. lith. “Frank Merriwell’s
Victory or The Winning Oar” |
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Advertisement
Aug 1929 The American Magazine Quaker State Motor Oil |
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Book Ralph
Henry Barbour, Captain of the Crew New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901 /
1902 |
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Pulp juvenile
[William Gilbert Patten], Frank Merriwell’s Faith, or Tried and True
New York: Street & Smith, 1900. |
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Felt pennants
c.1930: (a) Harvard and (b) Syracuse |
Cabinet 15 / Shelf 1 - Art
The paintings of Eakins, Renoir and Seurat relating to rowing are justifiably
famous, but many other artists of note have also depicted the sport.
Illustrators from Gustav Dore to A.B. Frost to Leyendecker to Norman Rockwell
have created wonderful rowing imagery, and very early images by Childe Hassam
(the red booklet cover) and Reginald Marsh (the Yale Record cover) are here on
display. Sculptors have produced memorable pieces; Ellen Kennelly’s replication
of a sculler’s hands is a fine example.
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Photo 1879
Joineville Regatta single sculls race [French boating inspired numerous
Impressionist paintings] |
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Ceramic charger
c. 1900? [hand painted European rowing scene]
[WM] |
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Bronze figurine
c.1985 by Peter Raymond? [woman rower carrying oar] |
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Photo 1936
[Leni Riefenstahl discussing camera angles with her cameraman for “Olympiad”
rowing shots at Grunau] |
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Set of seven painted model oars |
Cabinet 15 /
Shelf 2 - (Art continued)
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Magazine
Aug 1996 The Magazine Antiques [article “The Rowing Pictures of Thomas
Eakins” by Helen Cooper] |
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Brochure
2001 “Thomas Eakins – American Realist” exhibition at Philadelphia Museum
of Art |
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Trade card
1880 “Amateur Muscle in the Shell/ Copyright 1880, by Currier & Ives N.Y.”
|
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Booklet [F.W.
Knowles]: ‘88 Harvard Freshman Crew. Cover figure of oarsman by
Childe Hassam. |
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Magazine
12/06/1919 [cover illus] Yale Record Commencement issue [Yale-Harvard Boat
Race scene by Reginald Marsh] |
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Book Helen
A. Cooper, Thomas Eakins – The Rowing Pictures. New Haven and
London: Yale University, 1996. |
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Bookplate
1909 by William Edgar Fisher (1872-1956) “The Library of Bowdoin College –
Gift of the Class of 1882” |
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Italian pen and ink over pencil
drawing 18th c. [mythical beast with bull’s head
on human body holding an oar] |
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Proof silver medallion
[c.1975] Franklin Mint ["Max Schmitt in a Single Scull/
1871/ Thomas Eakins"] |
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Wedgwood bowl mounted on plinth
[National Rowing Foundation / USRowing]
Jack Kelly Bowl |
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Stock prize medal
c. 1930 [standing oarsman single sculler over demi-lune] |
Cabinet 15 / Shelf 3 - Preservation
of rowing art, history, literature and memorabilia; collections and exhibitions
The recording and preservation of rowing history has been effected by an
amazingly small group of people. While there are a number of good rowing
histories (two published by Mystic Seaport), there are only two significant
exhibits of rowing artifacts on long-term display in England and the United
States – and this is one of them. So here’s to those who collect and write and
lecture on rowing history ... and may you be one of them.
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Pamphlet [R.H.G.
and J.L.G.], XIVTH Olympiad, 1948. Rowing Museum, The Drill Hall,
Henley-on-Thames: 1948. |
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[A. Lloyd-Taylor], Catalogue of the
Collection of Rowing Pictures and Trophies at the Coach and Eight
Whitbread & Co. Ltd., [1953] |
|
Book J.
David Farmer, Rowing/Olympics. University Art Museum, University of
California, Santa Barbara, 20 June - 5 August 1984. |
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Mary Jane Pagan and Thomas E. Weil, Jr.,
Reflections on a Tradition – English and American
Rowing Art Georgetown
University, 1990. |
|
Book
[William Rose], In Retrospect 1939-1989 - An Exhibition Sponsored by
Phillips at Stonor Park and during the 1989 Regatta. |
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Pamphlet
Jane E. Allen and Roger B. Allen, Flashing Oars Rowing on the Schuylkill
The Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1985. |
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Pamphlet
2006? Geoffrey Page’s Rowing & Sculling Books/ For Sale at Way’s Bookshop/
Friday Street, Henley on Thames
[WHP] |
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Pamphlet
The Robert F. Herrick / Rowing Collection / Union Boat Club. Dedication in
the Union Boat Club May 20, 1962 |
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Pamphlet
c.1973 The Parker Gallery/ ... / A Catalogue of/ The Rickett Collection of/
Rowing/ Prints, Paintings and Watercolours. |
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Book
Robert Frederick Herrick (comp.), Red Top - Reminiscences of Harvard
Rowing Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. |
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Book
Frederick Brittain, Oar, Scull and Rudder London: Humphrey Milford,
Oxford University Press, 1930. |
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Tls
15/01/1954 from Dr. Frederick Brittain to T.C. Mendenhall, reading in
part, "I note that you have come across my bibliography of rowing in the
book called Red Top. Perhaps you do not know that by a piece of
superb effrontery it was filched from my own book without so much as a
request for permission or an apology for having stolen my property."
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Cabinet 15 / Shelf 4 -
(Preservation of rowing art, history, literature and memorabilia; collections
and exhibitions continued)
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Book Fred
J. Engelhardt (ed.), The American Rowing Almanac and Oarsman’s Pocket
Companion. New York: Fred J. Engelhardt, 1874. |
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Book E.D.
Price and A.I. McLeod, Rowing in 1876, or, The Oarsman’s Pocket Guide
Detroit: 1876. |
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Book W.H.
Royston (ed.), The Rowing Almanack and Oarsman’s Companion London:
Kent & Company, 1865. |
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Friends of Rowing History National
Rowing Foundation Mystic Seaport 3rd Rowing History Forum February 26th,
2006 Mystic Seaport |
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Book
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, The Harvard-Yale Boat Race, 1852-1924
Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum Publications, 1993. |
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Friends of Rowing History/ National
Rowing Foundation/ Mystic Seaport Rowing History Forum January 26th, 2003/
Mystic Seaport |
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Bulletin June – July – Aug – Sep 2001/
River & Rowing/ Museum/ Henley on Thames/ Americans at Henley. |
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Book Karen
Ann Solem (ed.), American Rower’s Almanac Washington, D.C.: 1996 |
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Book
Thomas E. Weil, Beauty and the Boats – art and artistry in early British
rowing. Henley: River and Rowing Museum, 2005. |
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Bronze sculpture
c. 2000 by rower and rowing sculptor Ellen Kennelly “The Ted Sprague Trophy” |
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Book Keith
L. Osborne (ed.), British Rowing Almanac and ARA Year Book. London:
The Amateur Rowing Association, 2006. |
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Book
Christopher Dodd, The Story of World Rowing London: Stanley Paul &
Co. Ltd, 1992. |
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1984 presentation model Glyn Locke
racing single scull with pair of sculls mounted on a wooden stand. No. 4 of
25. [WHP] |
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Book G.E.
Morris and Llewellyn Howland III, Yachting in America - A Bibliography
Mystic Seaport Museum, 1991 [and rowing] |
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Book James
Watson (ed.), Rowing and Athletic Manual for 1874. New York: Jas.
Watson, 1874. |
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Book
Daniel J. Boyne, The Red Rose Crew - A True Story of Women, Winning, and
the Water. New York: Hyperion, 2000. |
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