Cornell University Crew records
Scope and content
Includes varsity and freshman crew rosters; Coach Charles Courtney's diary and journals of distances rowed, weather conditions, and other information; newspaper clippings and other press; regatta programs; scrapbooks; map; correspondence with Todd Jesdale; minutes of the Sprague Boat Club; photographs, photograph albums, and glass negatives of crew events, Ithaca, New York views, and the Cayuga Lake Inlet; and a phonograph record and cassette copy concerning a 1946 regatta at Lake Washington. Material pertaining to John L. Collyer and Donald E. Maclay. Also, videocassettes and a film of the 1957 Cornell crew victory at Henley. Also, the crew logs (1937-1970) and crew files (1937-1975) of coach R. Harrison "Stork" Sanford; and slides of crews and crew activities. Also, scrapbooks (1896-1898). Also some film including footage of the 1929 Syracuse vs Cornell regatta by Allan H. Mogensen. 1957 Henley regatta materials.
Also, Inter College Regatta Goblet, engraved with winning crews from 1906 through 1915.
Dates
- 1871 - 2013
Creator
- Cornell Crew (Rowing team) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Use
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings, viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. If an item is in another media format, you may request to have the item digitized for access. Information on ordering access copies may be found on the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections webpage.
Conditions Governing Use
Audio visual media that has been digitized: F-2187.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The Cornell Crew was also referred to as the Cornell Navy, or rowing team, but should not be called the crew team.
Extent
11.9 cubic feet.
170.6 megabytes.
11 mapcase folders.
Abstract
Includes varsity and freshman crew ephemera and photographs.
SERIES LIST
Series I. General files Boxes 1, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15-18, 22, 23, 27, 28 and Mapcase Folder 6, 7
Series II. Audio and visual material Box 7 and other individually located items
Series III. Photographs Boxes 2-7, 10, 12-14, 18-26, Mapcase Folders 1-5 and 7
Series IV. Objects Box 17 and loose items
Physical Description
Rosters, diary, journals, scrapbooks, logs, map, correspondence, programs, photographs, glass negatives, slides, videocassettes, and film.
- Cayuga Lake.
- Collyer, John Lyon, 1893-
- Cornell Crew (Rowing team)
- Cornell University -- : Athletics.
- Courtney, Charles Edward, 1849-1920.
- Diaries
- Henley Royal Regatta
- Ithaca (N.Y.)
- Jesdale, Todd.
- Journals (accounts)
- Maclay, Donald E.
- Maps.
- Negatives.
- Photographs
- Regattas.
- Rowing.
- Sanford, R. Harrison.
- Scrapbooks
- Slides (photographs).
- Sprague Boat Club
- Videotapes.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by G. Colman, N. Dean
- Date
- May 2003
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)