June Pickups

[vintagesportscollector]

Large 1891 Cornell rowing photograph by C.H. Howes.

The photo was taken June 25th, 1891, in New London, CT, when Cornell brakes the world record for an eight-oared 3-mile race with a time of 14 minutes 27½ seconds. The photo has some condition issues, which I will need to address to best preserve, but a very rare original photograph of an historically dominant crew.

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[slidekellyslide]

Picked up a ton of sports publications from the 1920s-60s (including about 30 Husker football programs mostly from the 30s and 40s) at a local auction tonight. Also got a very cool 1930 champions baseball trophy along with charms from the same championship. Got the guy's baseball bat too, a Spalding 200 Hand Turned model.

[horzverti]

Great stuff Dan. Nice big group of programs. Did you have a lot of bidding competition at the auction?

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Picked up a ton of sports publications from the 1920s-60s (including about 30 Husker football programs mostly from the 30s and 40s) at a local auction tonight. Also got a very cool 1930 champions baseball trophy along with charms from the same championship. Got the guy's baseball bat too, a Spalding 200 Hand Turned model.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by horzverti

Great stuff Dan. Nice big group of programs. Did you have a lot of bidding competition at the auction?

Yeah, all the local 'heavy hitters' were there, but the good thing is they are all cheap. As far as I know none of them do ebay, they just buy to collect or sell locally.

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Yeah, all the local 'heavy hitters' were there, but the good thing is they are all cheap. As far as I know none of them do ebay, they just buy to collect or sell locally.

Nice haul Dan!

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[Brian Van Horn]

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[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Large 1891 Cornell rowing photograph by C.H. Howes.

The photo was taken June 25th, 1891, in New London, CT, when Cornell brakes the world record for an eight-oared 3-mile race with a time of 14 minutes 27½ seconds. The photo has some condition issues, which I will need to address to best preserve, but a very rare original photograph of an historically dominant crew.

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Very cool. I was captain of my high school crew team. We never came close to setting any records though.