Cornell University Crew records, 1871-2013
Collection Number: 40-1-924

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Cornell University Crew records, 1871-2013

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

40-1-924

Abstract:

Includes varsity and freshman crew ephemera and photographs.

Creator:

Cornell Crew (Rowing team)

Quanitities:

11.9 cubic feet.

170.6 megabytes.

11 mapcase folders.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The Cornell Crew was also referred to as the Cornell Navy, or rowing team, but should not be called the crew team.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also Ernest William Schoder papers, #16-4-1156 for an additional film.

See also Arthur Charles Stallman papers, #2981 for a 1927 photo album featuring the crew.

See also Harriette Grace Delany scrapbook, #37-5-4606, for photographs of the Women's crew team circa 1910-1912.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Cornell University Crew records, #40-1-924. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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.

Scope and content

Also, Inter College Regatta Goblet, engraved with winning crews from 1906 through 1915.

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.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Collyer, John Lyon, 1893-

Courtney, Charles Edward, 1849-1920.

Jesdale, Todd.

Maclay, Donald E.

Sanford, R. Harrison.

Cornell University -- : Athletics.

Cornell Crew (Rowing team)

Sprague Boat Club

Henley Royal Regatta

Places:

Cayuga Lake.

Ithaca (N.Y.)

Subjects:

Rowing.

Regattas.

Form and Genre Terms:

Videotapes.

Slides (photographs).

Scrapbooks.

Photographs.

Maps.

Journals.

Negatives.

Diaries.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. General files
Box 1		Freshman crew candidates
		Scope and Contents Includes dates 1904-1905, 1908-1910, 1912
Box 1		Varsity crew candidates
		Scope and Contents Includes dates 1902, 1907-1909
Box 8		Correspondence, 1948-1970; Scrapbooks, 1931-1932, 1940; Courtney's log book, 1911-1920
Box 9		Coach Sanford's crew logs, 1937-1970, and files, 1937-1975
Box 11		Scrapbooks
Box 12	Folder 13	Two of Courtney's Notebooks with Information on Different Crew Members, 1906	1906
Box 12	Folder 13	Courtney's Datebook Recording Weather Conditions, 1906	1906
Box 12	Folder 13	Courtney's Datebook Recording Weather Conditions, 1911	1911
Box 12	Folder 17	Correspondence, June 1972-May 1973	1972-1973
Box 12	Folder 18	"For the Game's Sake," by Lawrence Perry, from N.Y. Evening Post, May 17, 1920	May 27, 1920
		The article describes a crew race between Cornell, Princeton, and Yale on lake Carnegie.
Box 12	Folder 19	Correspondence, March 1971-May 1972	1971-1972
Box 12	Folder 20	Correspondence, January 1971-March 1972	1971-1972
Box 12	Folder 21	Correspondence, May 1967-February 1972	1967-1972
Box 12	Folder 22	Correspondence, March 1967-February 1972	1970-1972
Box 12	Folder 23	Correspondence, June 1967-August 1972	1970-1978
Box 12	Folder 24	Correspondence and Assorted Crew Photos, September-October 1947	1947
Box 12	Folder 25	Correspondence, 1874-1915	1874-1915
Box 12	Folder 26	Ithaca Journal, p. 10, concerning provenance of this collection	May 24, 1958
Box 12	Folder 27	Correspondence	1900-1958
Box 12	Folder 28	Misc.
		Scope and Contents Includes copy of the May 29, 1895 Cornell Daily Sun article about the send off the team received on its way to the Henley Regatta. Also a poem about the crew titled "Looking Backward".
Box 12	Folder 29	List of crew members	1872-1911
		Scope and Contents Includes Freshmen Crew photo in June 4, 1892 Ithaca Daily Journal
Box 15		Courtney journals
		Scope and Contents Includes dates 1894, 1903, 1905-1907, 1909, 1922-1924
Box 16	Folder 1	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records	Undated
Box 16	Folder 2	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records	1895-1900
Box 16	Folder 3	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records	1904-1907
Box 16	Folder 4	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records (contains additional journal entries)	1907
Box 16	Folder 5	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records (contains additional journal entries)	1910-1911
Box 16	Folder 6	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records	1919
Box 16	Folder 7	Charles Courtney crew assignments and records (contains additional journal entries)	1914-1920
Box 16	Folder 8	Regatta programs	1899-1902
Box 16	Folder 9	Regatta programs	1903-1908
		Scope and Contents Contains small 1903 "Positions of the crew" card
Box 16	Folder 10	Regatta programs	1911
Box 16	Folder 11	Regatta programs	1913-1916
		Scope and Contents 1913 program includes ticket for the observation car on the West Shore Railroad, Poughkeepsie.
Box 16	Folder 12	Regatta programs	1924
Box 16	Folder 13	Regatta programs (with press and radio info)	1952
Box 16	Folder 14	Regatta programs	1977-1979
Box 16	Folder 15	Henley Royal Regatta programs	1957
Box 16	Folder 16	Henley Royal Regatta programs	1977
Box 16	Folder 17	Henley Royal Regatta programs	2005
Box 16	Folder 18	Poughkeepsie Regatta programs
Box 16	Folder 19	Crew celebration programs	1909-1911, 1913
Box 16	Folder 20	Class of 1898 banquet program	1898
Box 16	Folder 21	Charles Courtney's Rowing Hall of Fame card	1956
Box 16	Folder 21	Cornell Athletic Association By-laws	1899
Box 16	Folder 22	Other programs	1987, 2003-2004
Box 16	Folder 23	National Association Amateur Oarsmen official guide	1955
Box 16	Folder 24	United States Olympic Trials, Onondaga Lake, Syracuse	1956
Box 16	Folder 25	Poughkeepsie New Yorker, photocopies	1938, 1949
Box 16	Folder 26	Scrapbook of news clippings, from the Hagar family	1895-1898
Box 16	Folder 27	"The One That Counted, Heavyweight varsity wins the IRA's" (Cornell Alumni News)	1963
Box 16	Folder 28	Stork Sanford death coverage	1999-2000
Box 16	Folder 29	Windermere Cup	2005
Box 16	Folder 30	Tickets and Badges	1956, 1957
		Scope and Contents Items from 1956 Potomac regatta and 1957 Henley
Box 16	Folder 31	Packet of material collected by Stephen Rounds	2011
Box 16	Folder 32	News clippings	1913
Box 16	Folder 33	News clippings	1950's-1980's
Box 16	Folder 34	"The Last Bastion Falls," Anne Morrissy (New York Herald Tribune)	1954
Box 16	Folder 35	"Big Red Oarsmen Capture IRA Crown"	1971
Box 16	Folder 36	Articles on Cornell boathouses	1957
Box 16	Folder 37	Cornell Crew song	Undated
		Scope and Contents Includes a reproduction of an original broadside advertising the song
Box 16	Folder 38	Cornell Freshmen illustration (Harper's Weekly)	1875
Box 16	Folder 39	News clipping regarding intercollegiate regatta on Onondaga Lake	1965
Box 16	Folder 40	"Crew at Cornell"	Undated
Box 16	Folder 41	IRA National Championships	2005
Box 16	Folder 42	Rusty Callow's answer to Bruce Lee's question, "Why crew?"	Undated
Box 16	Folder 43	Misc. boatings and schedules	1976, Undated
Box 16	Folder 44	"Stroke of Genius", by Alan Maver	Undated
		Scope and Contents Galley proof for King Features depicting drawing of Stork Sanford
Box 16	Folder 45	Press release proofs	1977
Box 16	Folder 46	"Intro to sculling, rowing the REC racer," by James H. Dreher	Undated
Box 16	Folder 47	Benjamin Evans Dean varsity letter/numerals certificates	1936-1937
Box 16	Folder 48	"Help The Cornell Navy!...Beecher's Lecture" broadside	Undated
Box 16	Folder 49	Miscellaneous items	Undated
Box 16	Folder 50	Miscellaneous legal size items	1950s
		Scope and Contents Includes a news letter from Bob Kane about the dedication of the boathouse May 31, 1957 and other crew happenings. Itinerary and program for the 1954 Eastern Sprint Regatta
Box 17		Courtney's personal expense book	1907
Box 17		Training table expense book	1916
Box 17		Minutes, The Sprague Boat Club of Cornell University, 1 vol.	1874-1901
Box 17		The Cornell Navy, published vol.	1871-1905
Box 18		Coach's Creed
Box 18		The Howard M. Smith Cup, background info	2002
Box 18		The Raritan Cup, background info	1994
Box 18	Folder 1	IRA victory certificates for Robert J. Gabler, Jeffrey B. Granger, and Eric W. Sargent	June 7, 1981
Box 18	Folder 2	Plans for Women's Boathouse	February 12, 1979
Box 18	Folder 3	Cornell Alumni News articles on John Collyer	1941, 1952
Box 18	Folder 4	Articles: Cornell victory in Henley Royal Regatta (1957) and IRA championships on Onondaga Lake (1977)	1957, 1977
Box 18	Folder 5	Harper's Weekly photo collage of Cornell Crew at Henley Regatta and Harvard-Yale-Cornell boat race at Poughkeepsie	1897, Undated
Box 18	Folder 5	Copies of images from The Daily Graphic	July 1875
Box 18	Folder 6	Cornell Athletic Hall of Fame posters for Charles E. Courtney, William Seymour Newman, Randolph W. Weed, R. Harrison "Stork" Sanford, and George F. Ford
Box 22	Folder 1	Collegiate Crew Board Game (with game cards and pieces)	1974
Box 22	Folder 6	Scrapbook (contains only news clippings)	1895
Box 23	Folder 11	Henley Royal Regatta entrance list broadside	1895
Box 27		Newspaper clippings	1955-1956, 1958-1960
Box 27		Magazine articles about the crew	1955-1957
		Scope and Contents Includes Sports Illustrated, Time, Life, Presbyterian Life, Rowing, others
Box 28		Newspaper clippings	1957
		Scope and Contents Includes Henley coverage
Manuscript Box 2	Folder 40-1-230m	Henley material	1892-1895, 1973
		Scope and Contents Three photographs of the Cornell Crew at Henley, and six clippings relating to Cornell Crew. Includes a clipping from The Sunday Times (London), July 1, 1973, regarding the Henley Royal Regatta.
Manuscript Box 36	Folder 40-1-231m	Harper's Weekly	1875
		Scope and Contents July 24, and 31 1875 issues. Coverage of the Saratoga regatta
Mapcase Folder 6		"Cornell Sweeps College Regatta", New York Times, photocopy	June 22, 1958
Mapcase Folder 6		4 Course maps: Ohio River IRA Course (April 1950); the Third Mile, West Shore Course (April 26, 1951); West Shore Course (April 28, 1947); 1 5/16 Mile Course (May 31, 1946)	1940's-1950's
Mapcase Folder 6		Photocopy of poster of R. Harrison Sanford with signatures	May 26, 1970
		Scope and Contents Given to Sanford at the Cornell Club of New York dinner in his honor
Mapcase Folder 6		"How 'Old Man of Rowing' Won His First Race," New York Herald	April 19, 1914
		Scope and Contents Newspaper article about Courtney
Mapcase Folder 7		New York Tribune	May 25, 1913
Mapcase Folder 7		New York Times	July 4, 1915
Mapcase Folder 7		"The Intercollegiate Regatta, Saratoga Lake", Harper's Weekly	July 19, 1876
Mapcase Folder 7		"The College Athlete in Doors", Harper's Weekly	March 26, 1892
Box 34		Photostat copies of newspapers, including the Daily Graphic and Harper's Weekly,	1875-1915
		Clippings and programs
Box 37		Programs and schedules
		Scope and Contents Includes a copy of the Spring Day program "Mr. E. Nuff", circa 1916-1919.
		Series II. Audio and visual material
Box 7		Audio cassette of a 1946 disc recording
Video 46	V-46	Video cassette of 1957 crew victory at Henley
Video 301	V-301	Video cassette of 1957 crew victory at Henley
F 368	F-368	Cornell vs Syracuse Regatta film	May 25, 1929
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		Processing Information The beginning of the digitized version is cut off, but retained on the original film.
F 1731	F-1731	The Cornell Crew	1957
		Scope and Contents No titles, but may be similar to F-1732
F 1732	F-1732	The Cornell Crew 1957	1957
		Scope and Contents Has titles, but may be similar to F-1731
	Film cabinet	Additional Films (various dates)
		Scope and Contents Collyer Boathouse, regattas, etc..
Box 32	F-2294	Washington	1926
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2292	Henley trip	1963
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2293	Ratzeburg EARC sprints	1963-05-18
		16 mm film
Box 33	F-2304	Sprints Regatta Potomac River	1956-05-19
Box 31	F-2233	University of Washington, Long Beach California winning crew	1933
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2274	Heavyweight	1948
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2295	Harvard Penn Cornell	1952
		Scope and Contents Outer case reads "1962", reel reads "1952"
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2175	Varsity	1961-04-14
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2176	Varsity	1961-04-15
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2178	Port-side varsity and JV	1962-04
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2177	Freshman	1962-06-11
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2179	JV Syracuse IRA	1963
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2180	Varsity Syracuse IRA	1963
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2234	Untitled	1963
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2167	Fall	1963-1964
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2181	Fall	1963-1964
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2183	Untitled	1964
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2182	Frosh	1964-04-11
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2174	Freshman heavyweight	1964-06-06
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2170	JV and varsity	1964-06-08
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2184	Heavyweight Freshman: Tanks moving water	1965-02-13
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2185	Freshman dead water	1965-02-19
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2186	Tanks, moving water	1965-02-27
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2187	Freshman heavyweight	1965-04-28
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
	Digital	The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2188	All varsity men	1965-10-19
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2190	Fall	1965
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2189	Fall	1965-1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2191	Varsity Penn	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2192	Freshman MIT and Columbia	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2193	JV MIT and Columbia	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2163	Varsity MIT, Columbia	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2164	Crew Frosh, Penn	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2169	Penn.	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2166	Princeton varsity	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2173	JV Penn	1966
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2235	Carnegie Cup	1966
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2168	Frosh tanks	1966-02-19
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2194	Heavyweight freshman	1966-04-13
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2198	Freshman	1966-03-04
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2208	Untitled	1966-05-07
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2195	Freshman	1966-05-17
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2196	Freshman Syracuse IRA	1966-06-17
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2197	Varsity at Syracuse	1966-06-17
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2162	Syracuse IRA, JV, Frosh 24	1966-06-17
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2201	Untitled	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2202	Untitled	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2203	HVWT	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2204	FRLTWT	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2205	Varsity Princeton	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2206	Brown	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2207	Untitled	1967
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2161	Varsity Crew heavyweight	1967
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2199	Heavy Frosh	1967-03-04
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2238	Untitled	1967-05
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2200	Frosh	1967-05-18
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2236	Untitled	1967-07
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2237	Untitled	1967-07
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2165	Frosh and JV, Penn	1968
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2172	Crew	1968
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2225	Untitled	1968
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2232	Untitled	1968
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2239	Sanford	1968
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2241	Third varsity and varsity	1968
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2242	Boston ASA 206	1968-07
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2229	HVWT	1968-07
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2230	Untitled	1968-07
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2240	Freshman in the tanks	1968-10
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2243	Untitled	1968-10
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2210	Untitled	1969
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2211	Frosh	1969
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2212	Untitled	1969
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2213	LTWT	1969
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2214	Frosh versus Dartmouth	1969
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2209	Frosh	1969-04-02
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2244	HVWT	1969-06-05
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2245	Untitled	1969-07
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2246	Untitled	1969-08
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2247	Frosh in tanks	1969-11-25
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2226	Untitled	1969-11
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2248	Untitled	1969-11
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2249	Untitled	1969-11
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2215	Untitled	1969-11-02-1970
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2216	Syracuse	1969-1970
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2250	Penn race	1970-04-11
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2251	Freshman heavyweight	1970
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2217	Untitled	1970
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2218	Varsity	1969-1970
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2260	Untitled	1970
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2219	Penn race	1970-04-11
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2256	Frosh HVWT	1970
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2220	Untitled	1971-07-21
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2221	Untitled	1971
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2222	Untitled	1971
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2223	Syracuse	1971-10-17
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2224	Nationals	1971
		16 mm film
Box 29	F-2171	Practice with Syracuse	1972-04-14
		16 mm film
Box 33	F-2298	Fall to IRA	1976-1977
		8 mm film
Box 33	F-2299	1977-1978 Season	1977-1978
		Scope and Contents Freshman Fall Regatta 1977, Coast Guard Races 1978, Christening of Shells, Princeton Races, EARC, Madiera Cup, IRA
		8 mm film
Box 33	F-2300	Henley and Lucerne	1977
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2276	Ellen 5th Womens Regatta, Lake Waramaug	1979
		8 mm film
Box 30	F-2227	100' plus x	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2228	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 30	F-2231	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2252	Harvard	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2253	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2254	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2255	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2257	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2258	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2259	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2261	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2262	Varsity IRA Champions, training for Henley	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2263	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2264	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2265	EARC Sprints and Washington DC	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2266	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2267	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 31	F-2268	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2269	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2270	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2271	Untitled	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2272	Some Onondaga	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2273	IRA JV ZNA	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2275	IRA Onandaga	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2277	Untitled	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2278	Cornell Yale close finish	1957
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2279	Untitled	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2280	Untitled	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2281	IRA FR SBRA	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2282	Johnson-Hough, Harvard-Penn, Ron and Ann's wedding	1968
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2283	Harvard HV	1974
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2284	JV Varsity Florida	1968
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2285	Mandie's diploma, Johnson-Hough	Undated
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2286	Florida	1968
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2287	Princeton, EARC, Seward PRR	1957-05-18
		8 mm film
Box 32	F-2288	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2289	Varsity	1957
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2290	Test Roll II	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 32	F-2291	Untitled	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 33	F-2296	Victory at Henley	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 33	F-2297	Memories of Cornell Crew	Undated
		16 mm film
Box 33	F-2301	Untitled	Undated
		1/2" film
Box 33	F-2302	Larkin breathing, balance, stretching	Undated
		1/2" film
Box 33	F-2303	Untitled	Undated
		1/2" film
Box 33	V-11001	Films of the Cornell Crew	Undated
		VHS
		Series III. Photographs
Box 2		Black and white prints plus a few negatives, most with identification by Courtney; Courtney home and other Union Springs, N.Y. locations, views of Ithaca from 218 Eddy Street and from Cayuga Inlet, pictures of crews, mostly taken at Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, and Henley
Box 3		Black and white prints plus a few negatives, most with identification by Courtney; Courtney home and other Union Springs, N.Y. locations, views of Ithaca from 218 Eddy Street and from Cayuga Inlet, pictures of crews, mostly taken at Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, and Henley
Box 4		Black and white prints plus a few negatives, most with identification by Courtney; Courtney home and other Union Springs, N.Y. locations, views of Ithaca from 218 Eddy Street and from Cayuga Inlet, pictures of crews, mostly taken at Ithaca, Poughkeepsie, and Henley
Box 5		3 1/4" x 4" black and white slides in wood boxes
Box 6		3 1/4" x 4" black and white slides in wood boxes
Box 7		Photograph album	1890
Box 10		Slides
Box 12	Folder 1	Photo of 1873 Crew	1873
Box 12	Folder 2	Photo of Crew Varsity, 1876	1876
Box 12	Folder 3	Photos of Courtney and Crew at Poughkeepsie, 1896	1896
Box 12	Folder 4	Photos of Freshman and Varsity Crew, 1897	1897
Box 12	Folder 5	Group Photo of Varsity Crew, 1897	1897
Box 12	Folder 6	Varsity Crew Photos on Cayuga Lake, 1899-1900	1899-1900
Box 12	Folder 7	Group Photo of Varsity Crew, 1902	1902
Box 12	Folder 8	Varsity Crew Photos from 1903 and 1911	1903, 1911
Box 12	Folder 9	Photo of Varsity Crew 1905 and Photo of Snow in Poughkeepsie	1905
Box 12	Folder 10	Photos of Varsity Crew 1909 and 1911	1909, 1911
Box 12	Folder 11	Photo of Freshman Crew 1911 and Photo of Poughkeepsie	1911
Box 12	Folder 12	Photo of Courtney with Crew Candidates
Box 12	Folder 14	Photo of Varsity Crew, 1897	1897
Box 12	Folder 15	Photo of Crew, 1930	1930
Box 12	Folder 16	Photo Negatives Displaying Sailing Boats
Box 13	Folder 1	Article Excerpt with Freshman and Varsity Crew Photos, 1875	1875
Box 13	Folder 2	Photo of Crew Practice, 1892	1892
Box 13	Folder 3	Photo of Varsity Crew Practicing at Poughkeepsie, 1897	1897
Box 13	Folder 4	Photo of Crew Practice, 1903	1903
Box 13	Folder 5	Photo of Varsity Crew, 1905	1905
Box 13	Folder 6	Photo of Freshman Crew at Poughkeepsie, June 1907	June 1907
Box 13	Folder 7	Photo of Varsity Crew at Poughkeepsie, June 1907	June 1907
Box 13	Folder 8	Photo of Crew, 1910-1911	1910-1911
Box 13	Folder 9	Undated Crew Photo
Box 13	Folder 10	Undated Photos Displaying Several Crew Boats on a Lake
Box 13	Folder 11	Original Paper Overlays and Mounting for Crew Photos
Box 13	Folder 12	Original Paper Overlay and Mounting for Crew Photo
Box 13	Folder 13	Photo of Crew Boat Beside Cayuga Breakwater Lighthouse
Box 13	Folder 14	Photo of the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge with Several Boats Beneath
Box 13	Folder 15	Photo of Crew, 1891	1891
Box 13	Folder 16	Photo of Crew Boats in Poughkeepsie, July 1915	July 1915
Box 13	Folder 17	Varsity crew (2 copies)	1937
Box 13	Folder 18	W.S. [Bill] Newman portrait	1900's
Box 13	Folder 19	Enlarged portrait of William H. Forbes	1900's
Box 13	Folder 20	Portrait of Albert W. Smith	Undated
Box 14	Folder 1	Photo of Freshman Crew 1899, Winners at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on June 241 1896 Over Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Columbia	1896, 1899
Box 14	Folder 2	Photo of Edwin Regur Sweetland, Varsity Crew, Presented by the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, 1899	1899
Box 14	Folder 3	Photo of Robert L. Shape, '95 Freshman Crew, Presented by the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Box 14	Folder 4	Photograph of Henry E. Vanderhoef, Captain of Varsity 1901
Box 14	Folder 5	1981 IRA champions poster	1981
Box 14	Folder 6	1982 IRA champions poster	1982
Box 14	Folder 7	1913-14 Varsity Eight photo	1913-1914
Box 14	Folder 8	1901 Varsity group photo	1901
Box 14	Folder 9	1902 Varsity group photo	1902
Box 14	Folder 10	Photo collage with signatures and messages	1970's
Box 18	Folder 7	Team Photos 1939	1939
		Scope and Contents Includes Freshman and Varsity crew
Box 18	Folder 8	Team Photos 1940's	1940's
		Scope and Contents Includes Lightweight, Varsity and Eastern Sprint Champions
Box 18	Folder 9	Team Photos 1950's	1952-1959
		Scope and Contents Includes Henley Royal Regatta, Harvard record, Junior Varsity, Lightweight, Varsity and IRA Champions
Box 18	Folder 10	Team Photos 1960's	1960-1968
		Scope and Contents Includes Lightweight Varsity, Lightweight, Tri-champions Eastern Sprint Regatta and Heavyweight
Box 18	Folder 11	Team Photos 1970's	1970's
		Scope and Contents Includes Lightweight, Varsity and IRA Champions
Box 18	Folder 12	Team Photos 1980's	1981-1989
		Scope and Contents Includes Freshman A and B teams, Lightweight, Heavyweight, Varsity, Men's 4 boat, and Sprints
Box 18		Cabinet cards of Crew team, including Charles Courtney	1890
Box 18	Folder 13	Florida winter training, group photos	1997-2001
Box 19		1955 Intercollegiate Rowing Association Champions Lake Onondaga Syracuse	1955
Box 19		Cornell Ltw. Crew defeats Nottingham and Union Rowing Club	July 1, 1967
Box 19		Head of the Charles, Molesey Boat Club Championship Fours – signed by Ron Arlas, Rick Spiewak and Dick Kruger	1993
Box 19		1990 Women's Novice Crew	1990
Box 19		Doris Robison dedicates the Robison Shell House for Cornell Women	September 1979
Box 19		Coach Pete White instructs novices in basics of rowing stroke	Undated
Box 19		Christening of the Second Shell in the Cornell Women's Fleet	May 1977
Box 19		National Collegiate Champions, Lake Wingra Madison, Wisconsin	June 4, 1989
Box 19		Christening the Walter W. Schlaepfer	April 27, 1963
Box 19		Eastern Sprints	1992-1995, 1998
Box 19		Freshmen 8	2013
Box 19		2006 Cornell Lwt., Junior Varsity, Eastern Sprints Champions	2006
Box 19		2006 Cornell Lwt., Varsity, Eastern Sprints Champions/Lwt. Varsity IRA Champions/Henley Royal Regatta Temple Cup Finalists	2006
Box 19		2007 Cornell Lwt., Varsity, Silver Medalists Eastern Sprints Regatta/ Varsity IRA Champions/Henley Royal Regatta Temple Cup Runner Up	2007
Box 19		2008 Cornell Lwt., Varsity, Eastern Sprints Champions/IRA National Lwt. Champions/Henley Royal Regatta Semi Finalists	2008
Box 20	Folder 1	Cornell Crew Banquet	1974
Box 20	Folder 2	Lightweight Individual Portraits	1977
Box 20	Folder 3	Princeton vs. Cornell	April 1988
Box 20	Folder 4	Men's Crew	1988
Box 20	Folder 5	John P. Creel Jr.	August 1994
Box 20	Folder 6	Women's Crew	1997-1998
Box 20	Folder 7	Women's Crew	1998
Box 20	Folder 8	Intercollegiate Rowing Association (includes negatives)	1998
Box 20	Folder 9	Cornell Reunion Weekend	June 1998
Box 20	Folder 10	Head of Ohio	1999
Box 20	Folder 11	Cornell vs. Michigan and Syracuse, Goes Trophy	1999
Box 20	Folder 12	Spectators in front of the Boathouse	1999
Box 20	Folder 13	Class of '49 Reunion	1999
Box 20	Folder 14	Lightweight Crew	1999-2000
Box 20	Folder 15	IRA Pair Champions	2000
Box 20	Folder 16	Lightweight Crew	2000
Box 20	Folder 17	Women at Head of the Charles	2000
Box 20	Folder 18	Women's Crew at Rochester Stonehurst	2000
Box 20	Folder 19	Women at Head of the Fish	2000
Box 20	Folder 20	Schwartz Cup	2000
Box 20	Folder 21	Lightweight Freshmen	2000-2001
Box 20	Folder 22	Christening of "Hummingbird" Women's 8+	April 2001
Box 20	Folder 23	Women's Novice 2nd Boat	April 14, 2001
Box 20	Folder 24	Women's Novice 2nd Boat	April 22, 2001
Box 20	Folder 25	Women's Varsity Training	2001
Box 20	Folder 26	Novice Women	2001
Box 20	Folder 27	Women's Crew vs. Virginia	2001
Box 20	Folder 28	Women's Crew vs. Princeton	2001
Box 20	Folder 29	Goes Trophy	2001
Box 20	Folder 30	Princeton Chase	2001
Box 20	Folder 31	Head of the Charles	2001
Box 20	Folder 32	Women Winter Training	2001
Box 20	Folder 33	Spring Crew Newsletter Photos (includes note)	2001-2002
Box 20	Folder 34	Men and Women's Sprints (includes negatives)	2002
Box 20	Folder 35	Men's Crew Fall (includes note)	2002
Box 20	Folder 36	Rowing Newsletter Photos	2002
Box 20	Folder 37	Women's Crew	June 2003
Box 20	Folder 38	Cornell Crew on Lake	2003
Box 20	Folder 39	Windermere Classic Redwood Shores	April 2004
Box 20	Folder 40	IRA Master Win	June 4, 2004
Box 20	Folder 41	Lightweight Varsity Crew	2004
Box 20	Folder 42	Lightweight Crew	2004
Box 20	Folder 43	Heavyweight Crew	2005
Box 20	Folder 44	Cornell Crew with Goes Trophy	May 2009
Box 20	Folder 45	Women's Crew at Princeton	Undated
Box 20	Folder 46	Women's Crew inside Boathouse	Undated
Box 20	Folder 47	Lightweight Crew at Henley	Undated
Box 20	Folder 48	Ice breaking (includes note)	Undated
Box 20	Folder 49	Lightweight Crew Individual Portraits	1985
Box 20	Folder 50	"Charles P.E. von Wrangell '48" Boat Christening	1998
Box 20	Folder 51	Michigan vs. Cornell Heavyweight	March 27, 1999
Box 20	Folder 52	Michigan vs. Cornell Heavyweight & George Washington / Georgetown vs. Women	March 27, 1999
Box 20	Folder 53	Cornell Crew on Lake	April 1999
Box 20	Folder 54	Cornell Crew on Lake	1999
Box 20	Folder 55	Rutgers race and Goes Cup (includes note)	1999
Box 20	Folder 56	Cornell Crew	2000
Box 20	Folder 57	Women's Sprints Lake Wakamag	2000
Box 20	Folder 58	Michigan vs. Cornell Heavyweight	2000
Box 20	Folder 59	Men and Women's Crew at Rochester	2001
Box 20	Folder 60	Schwartz Cup (includes negatives)	2003
Box 20	Folder 61	Cornell Crew on Lake (includes note)	2003
Box 20	Folder 62	Various Crew	2003
Box 20	Folder 63	Christening the "Violet Y. '41" shell (includes note)	June 2004
Box 20	Folder 64	Rick Dyer, Mike McGuirk, and John Nunn at FISA World Masters Regatta (includes note)	September 3-5, 2004
Box 20	Folder 65	Heavyweights	2004
Box 20	Folder 66	Opening Day in Seattle	May 2005
Box 20	Folder 67	Lightweight Crew in Louisiana	2005
Box 20	Folder 68	Men's Sprints vs. Yale and Princeton, Lightweight rowers at Princeton Chase	2005, 2001
Box 20	Folder 69	Cornell Heavyweight wins Eastern Sprints (includes note)	1960
Box 20	Folder 70	Cornell Chronicle	May 1975
Box 20	Folder 71	Heavyweight Crew	1981
Box 20	Folder 72	Cornell Crew	1989
Box 20	Folder 73	Lightweight Crew (includes note)	2001
Box 20	Folder 74	Lightweight Freshmen	2001-2002
Box 20	Folder 75	Varsity Crew rowing north on Six Mile Creek	1898
Box 20	Folder 76	Final in Girls Interclass Race	1921
Box 20	Folder 77	Contact Sheets and Negatives of Head of the Charles Crews, IRA Crews, EARC, and Alumni Crews	1977-1978
Box 20	Folder 78	Cornell Women's Crew	1977-1978
Box 20	Folder 79	Lightweight Crew with Coach Todd Kennett '90	May 1998
Box 20	Folder 80	Lightweight Varsity and Second Varsity Crew	2006
Box 20	Folder 81	Lightweight Varsity	2008
Box 20	Folder 82	Men's and Women's team photos	Undated
Box 20	Folder 83	Miscellaneous Crew	Undated
Box 21	Folder 1	Individual portraits	1880's-1890's
Box 21	Folder 2	Individual portraits	1880's-1890's
Box 21	Folder 3	Individual portraits	1888-1889
Box 21	Folder 4	Individual portraits	1888-1889
Box 21	Folder 5	Individual portraits	1890
Box 21	Folder 6	Individual portraits	1892
Box 21	Folder 7	Individual portraits	1897
Box 21	Folder 8	1967 reunion	1967
Box 21	Folder 9	IRA Alumni dinner	2000
Box 21	Folder 10	The Cornell Launch at Poughkeepsie, John Hoyle and John L. Collyer on board	Undated
Box 21	Folder 11	Ken Charhut	Undated
Box 21	Folder 12	Unknown men's team reunion (includes note)	Undated
Box 21	Folder 13	On the Harlem River at New York	1800's
Box 21	Folder 14	Mary M. Crawford (Mrs. Edward Schuster) rowing in a single shell	June 1905
Box 21	Folder 15	Group photos and races	1915
Box 21	Folder 16	1997 Reunion	1997
Box 21	Folder 17	1997 Reunion and "VonHemert '83" christening	1997
Box 21	Folder 18	Crew banquet	April 17, 1999
Box 21	Folder 19	1999 Reunion	June 1999
Box 21	Folder 20	1999 Reunion and "59' Freshmen" shell dedication	June 1999
Box 21	Folder 21	"Red Storm Rising" shell dedication	June 1999
Box 21	Folder 22	Women's Crew with trophy	1999
Box 21	Folder 22	Women's Sprints	1999
Box 21	Folder 23	Teagle Hall tank building work	1999
Box 21	Folder 23	Receiving trophy at Head of the Fish	1999
Box 21	Folder 24	Men's Crew in Portland	November 4, 2000
Box 21	Folder 25	Summer scenes	2000
Box 21	Folder 26	Lindseth boat photos	2001
Box 21	Folder 27	2001-2002 Cornell Crew (1 of 4)	2001-2002
Box 21	Folder 28	2001-2002 Cornell Crew (2 of 4)	2001-2002
Box 21	Folder 29	2001-2002 Cornell Crew (3 of 4)	2001-2002
Box 21	Folder 30	2001-2002 Cornell Crew (4 of 4)	2001-2002
Box 21	Folder 31	Spring break	2003
Box 21	Folder 32	Schwartz cup	1999
Box 21	Folder 33	Schwartz cup	2002-2004
Box 21	Folder 34	Men's Crew vs. Princeton	Undated
Box 21	Folder 35	Men's Crew vs. Dartmouth vs. Harvard vs. Yale	Undated
Box 21	Folder 36	Men's Crew in the lock	Undated
Box 21	Folder 37	Individual portraits	1900's
Box 21	Folder 38	1903 (?) Crew	1903
Box 21	Folder 39	2nd Freshmen Crew	1917
Box 21	Folder 39	Lightweight Varsity Crew	1920
Box 21	Folder 40	Letter with response regarding summer rowing program for young people (includes photos)	1973
Box 21	Folder 41	Men's Crew old fashioned parody photo	1976
Box 21	Folder 42	1982 season review with photos	1982
Box 21	Folder 43	1989 Women's National Champions	1989
Box 21	Folder 43	1991 World Championships Silver Medalists - Women's Four	1991
Box 21	Folder 44	Lightweight Crew	1991
Box 21	Folder 45	Varsity and Freshmen lightweight	1992-1993
Box 21	Folder 46	Virginia MacDonald Lindseth and John W. MacDonald boats	2001
Box 21	Folder 47	Launch being launched; Loading boats and laundry out to dry; Christening of "Big Red" launch	Undated
Box 21	Folder 48	Unknown Crew in black-face	Undated
Box 21	Folder 49	Men's Crew vs. Yale	Undated
Box 21	Folder 50	Mens Crew running with oars	Undated
Box 21	Folder 51	Henley Royal Regatta	Undated
Box 21	Folder 52	Class of 1938 reunion	Undated
Box 21	Folder 53	Georges Cointe
Box 21	Folder 54	John Hoyle
Box 21	Folder 55	Todd Jesdale
Box 21	Folder 56	Tony Johnson
Box 21	Folder 57	David Kusick
Box 21	Folder 58	Findley Meislahn
Box 21	Folder 59	Douglas Neil
Box 21	Folder 60	John N. Ostrom
Box 21	Folder 61	Daniel Roock
Box 21	Folder 62	Harrison "Stork" Sanford
		Scope and Contents Includes Hall of Fame banquet photo
Box 21	Folder 63	Negatives of Cornell's first crew in Intercollegiate competition	1873
Box 21	Folder 64	Negatives of Henley Royal Regatta with letter from Glyn Locke to Head Coach Fin Meislahn	1970's
Box 21	Folder 65	Negatives of Men's Crew	1970's
Box 21	Folder 66	Negatives of Henley Royal Regatta and contact sheets	1976
Box 21	Folder 67	Slides of Cornell Crew on lake with Findley Meislahn	1976-1977
Box 21	Folder 68	Lightweight Varsity Crew	1984
Box 21	Folder 69	Negatives of Head of the Fish, total point trophy	1999
Box 21	Folder 70	Negatives of individual portraits	Undated
Box 21	Folder 71	Negatives, miscellaneous crew	Undated
Box 21	Folder 72	Unknown negative of person in a single shell	1900's
Box 22	Folder 2	Charles E. Courtney's house	Undated
Box 22	Folder 3	Charles E. Courtney
Box 22	Folder 4	Men's Crew	May 3, 1924
Box 22	Folder 5	Certificate of thanks to the Pennsylvania Boat Club regarding hospitality during Child's Cup contest	July 9, 1887
Box 23	Folder 1	Varsity Crew	1875
Box 23	Folder 2	"The Henley Crew"	1895
Box 23	Folder 3	Men's Crew	1900's
Box 23	Folder 4	Men's Four	1900, 1903
Box 23	Folder 5	Varsity Crew	1911
Box 23	Folder 6	U.S. Olympic rowing trials	July 5, 1952
Box 23	Folder 6	Defeating Yale in final for Grand Challenge Cup, Henley Royal Regatta	Undated
Box 23	Folder 7	Findley Meislahn with unidentified group	Undated
Box 23	Folder 8	Dedication of "E.F. Rosey Bower", with Stork Sanford	Undated
Box 23	Folder 9	Undated Women's Crew	Undated
Box 23	Folder 10	Undated Men's Crew	Undated
Box 24	Folder 1	Men's Crew	1900's
Box 24	Folder 2	Varsity Crew	1897-1898
Box 24	Folder 3	Varsity Crew	1902, 1906
Box 24	Folder 4	Varsity Crew	1921
Box 24	Folder 5	Albert R. Coffin photo	Undated
Box 24	Folder 6	Group photos	1900's
Box 24	Folder 7	Cornell Women's first crew - Sage College Crew/Sage Boating Club	1897
Box 25		Scrapbook (contains photos)	1937-1940
Box 25		Scrapbook (contains photos)	1945-1946
Box 26		Scrapbook (contains photos)	1947-1948
		Scope and Contents Found loose within scrapbook: misc. newspapers, 2 pages from a different scrapbook, 1948 U.S. Olympic Team Trials program, 1947 and 1948 Poughkeepsie Regatta programs
	ZD-39	Cornell Crew photos	1999-2000
	ZD-40	Photos HW, LW, WM	2001-2002
Mapcase Folder 1		Photo collage of races - contains both men and women	1991-1999
Mapcase Folder 2		Photo collage of races - contains just men	1992-1994
Mapcase Folder 3		Photo collage of races - contains just men	1995-1999
Mapcase Folder 4		Photo collage of races - contains just women	1970's, 1992-1997
Mapcase Folder 5		Varsity Crew	1917
Mapcase Folder 5		Cornell Crew Club, yearbook photo (parody)	1949
Mapcase Folder 5		Collyer boathouse	Undated
Mapcase Folder 5		Eastern Sprints Gold Medalists, 2nd Varsity Eight	2005
Mapcase Folder 7		Cornell Lightweight Crew	1985
Mapcase Folder 7		Freshmen Crew	1899
Mapcase Folder 7		Cornerstone ceremony, class of 1917 reunion	June 8, 1957
Mapcase Folder 8		Class of 1894 group photograph	1891
Box 33		Untitled	Undated
		Slides.
Box 35		Crew team photographs, with Pauline Cointe	1958-1961
		Series IV. Objects and Memorabilia
Box 17	MU-1687	Freshman fall regatta plaque	1980
Box 17	MU-1688	Windermere Cup plaque	1991
Box 17	MU-1689	Windermere Cup plaque, opening day	1993
Box 17	MU-1690	Troy memorial trophy case plaque, gift of John L. Collyer	Undated
MU 1708	MU-1708	Inter College Regatta Goblet, engraved with winning crews from 1906 through 1915	1906-1915
Mapcase Folder 10	MU-3019	Intercollegiate Rowing Association banner	1906
Mapcase Folder 9	MU-3015	Intercollegiate Rowing Association banner	1910
Mapcase Folder 11	MU-3016	Intercollegiate Rowing Association banner	1911
Mapcase Folder 11	MU-3017	Intercollegiate Rowing Association banner	1912
Mapcase Folder 9	MU-3018	Intercollegiate Rowing Association banner	1915
Mapcase Folder 10		Oared Shell Sharpless Cup, Cup and People's Regatta, Philadelphia	1889
Box 36	MU-4009 to MU-4014	Six "Trophy Shirts" from defeated teams	1936
		Scope and Contents T-shirts and tank tops from teams that Cornell defeated: Harvard, Yale, Syracuse, and Princeton. Formerly owned by William Van Arsdale, class of 1936.
Box 24	Folder 8	Murad Company print with Cornell crew team	1911
		Scope and Contents Number 4 in the College Series.
Box 24	Folder 8	Colored print of Cornell crew team	Undated
		Scope and Contents Blue background with illustration of Crew rowing. Possibly by George Markendorfe Publishers.

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Cornell University Crew records, 1871-2013 Collection Number: 40-1-924

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Cornell University Crew records, 1871-2013
Collection Number: 40-1-924

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