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Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: April 2008 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS Guide to the Class of 1873 Boat Club Records and Rowing Scrapbooks, 1871 - 1883 Special Collections & ArchivesWesleyan University Middletown, CT, USA

Descriptive Summary Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) Class of 1873 Boat Club Records and Rowing Scrapbooks, 1871 - 1883 1000-10 Material in English 0.5 2 For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Special Collections & Archives staff. The class of 1873 Boat Club was organized on October 4, 1870, by 19 members of the class of 1873. It participated in the first Wesleyan regatta, which was held July 19, 1871, with the clubs of the classes of 1872, 1873, and 1874 competing. The Class of 1873 Boat Club Records and Rowing Scrapbooks contains three scrapbooks about Wesleyan regattas as well as several items about other collegiate regattas. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Copyright for Official University records is held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Class of 1873 Boat Club Records and Rowing Scrapbooks, Collection #1000-10, Special Collections & Archives, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Given to the Wesleyan University Library some time before 1990.

Processing Information

Processed by Jeffrey Makala, 2000

Encoded by Valerie Gillispie, April 2008

Historical Note

This collection contains records of rowing/crew at Wesleyan University in the 1870s and 1880s. At the time, each class of students at Wesleyan organized its own rowing club. The class of 1873 Boat Club was organized on October 4, 1870, by 19 members of the class of 1873. It participated in the first Wesleyan regatta, which was held July 19, 1871, with the clubs of the classes of 1872, 1873, and 1874 competing.

Collection Overview

Club records include its constitution and bylaws, minutes of early meetings, membership lists, and records of competitions. The newspaper clippings in this collection document Wesleyan-related rowing events as well as rowing competitions in the eastern United States and England. The two general rowing scrapbooks were collected by John E. Eustis '1874 in the years following his graduation from Wesleyan. Eustis was a captain of the 1874 club and, after leaving Wesleyan, became a captain and leader of New York's Atalanta Boat Club and a referee of collegiate regattas.

Also included in this collection are a hand-drawn map of the Saratoga Regatta course (1875), and programs of Wesleyan Regattas (1881-1882).

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Rowing--United States. Rowing clubs--Connecticut--Middletown--19th century. Rowing--Connecticut--Middletown--19th century. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)--Sports. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)--Rowing. Scrapbooks. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)--History--19th century. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)--Students. Related Material

The Wesleyan University Archives holdings include: three vertical subject file folders on rowing at Wesleyan including articles, clippings, and photographs; one trophy from the Springfield MA regatta (1872) won by the freshman crew team; Nicolson, Frank W., Athletics at Wesleyan, Middletown CT, Wesleyan Alumni Council, 1938, which includes a history, reminiscences, and list of rowing lettermen at Wesleyan.

Detailed Description of the Collection 11 Records of '73 Boat Club, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, ledger volume, 22 cm.

Includes constitution and bylaws, membership lists, minutes (1871), record of competitions and results (1871), and clippings from CT, MA, and NY newspapers (1871-1874).

12 Boating Notes / John E. Eustis [class of 1874], scrapbook volume, 33.5 cm.

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings pasted atop an earlier, unrelated account book. The Account book is organized in calendar format with records of accounts due and outstanding bills of individuals. Includes newspaper clippings of regattas and rowing contests in the United States and England (1874-1877) and programs to Wesleyan's Fall Regatta (October 29, 1881) and Spring Regatta (May 20, 1882).

13-4 Untitled, incomplete scrapbook, 33.5 cm.

Consists of loose newspaper clippings of rowing events (1874-1876) and blank ledger book, lacking approximately half its pages (2 folders).

1 Oversized Materials The Great College Regatta at Springfield, Mass., July 17th [1873], foldout mounted engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 2, 1873 (64 x 34 cm). Map of a Part of Saratoga Lake with Rowing Course for College Regatta, hand-drawn, hand-colored map, 1875 (37x 50 cm). Eighth Regatta of the Harlem Regatta Association, Held on the Hudson River, New York City, Friday, June 9th, 1882, broadside (26x 33cm).