Full title: [Collection of newspaper cuttings, ephemera and photographs on mainly Australian and American swimming and swimmers, from the Davis Sporting Collection No. 2]

Author/creator: Davis, J. C. (John Corbett), 1870-1941.

Date: [1888-1935]..

Call Numbers: DAVIS SPORTING COLLECTION NO. 2

Record Identifier: 74VKmwwP2mxZ

Language: English

Formats: Clippings

Contents: 5 v. in 1 box : ill., ports, photographs, col. maps., Swimming 96-1: Clippings, correspondence, statistics, handwritten notes, records, race results, event reports, images, cartoons and caricatures covering events such as various swimming carnivals, event meets, amateur swimming and the Australian Swimming Championships; swimmer profiles on Norman Ross, Tom Morris, E.B. ('Brusher') Jones and others; excerpt from The Town and Country Journal titled 'The Longworth Brothers, the champions methods and opinions - January 17th, 1912'; souvenir programme titled 'The Wrigley ocean marathon across the Catania channel - January 15-16, 1927'; Clippings pasted in book titled 'The Newspaper Press Directory, 1914' 1912-1927 -- Swimming 96-2: Clippings, correspondence, handwritten notes, statistics, images, records, obituaries, event reports covering the state championships, swimming of the English Channel, the Sydney High School Carnival and the 1930 Empire Games held in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; profiles of notable Australian swimmers including Tom Morris, Frank McCure and Barney Kieran; excerpt titled 'The newspaper map of the United Kingdom supplement to the Newspaper Press Directory, 1919', 1919-1935 -- Swimming 96-3: Clippings, correspondence, images, event results, records and swimmer profiles covering various swimming clubs across the Sydney region, the Swimming Championships of Australia, women's swimming, the Metropolitan Police Swimming Carnival, swimming of the English Channel and Australian swimmers in New Zealand and the United States of America; souvenir programme titled the 'London hippodrome, souvenir programme of Miss Annette Kellermann's one hundredth performance at this theatre, on the occasion of the visit of the New Zealand Football Team, Thursday, January 11th, 1906', 1888-1919 -- Swimming 96-4: Clippings, images, correspondence, event reports, race results, statistics, records and curiosities covering Australian and American competitive swimming and events women's swimming, including state swimming, the Amateur Freestyle Championships and others; printed ephemera including postcard titled 'Amateur Freestyle Championships winners' and event programmes titled 'Fifth Olympiad, Olympic Games of Stockholm 1912 - Swimming', 'New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association, State Championship Carnival - Municipal Baths, Domain, Sydney, January, 1915', 'New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association - Dinner tendered by the Association to the Hawaiian swimming team and the competitors in the State Championships, 1915'; profiles of notable swimmers including Duke Kahanamoku, T.A. Adrian, Barney Kieran, Frank Beaurepaire, Fanny Durak, Charlotte Head and others; photographs including unnamed swimming arena and American swimmer Harold Smith; report titled 'Swimming and lifesaving, Melbourne 31st of July, 1914', 1912-1930 -- Swimming 96-5: Clippings and images covering Tom William Burgess and his attempts of swimming the English Channel, American Red Cross lifesaving demonstration and newspaper excerpt titled 'Girls may decide the 1924 Olympics - why Uncle Sam is depending upon his daughters to put over the winning punch in the water when the world's athletes clash at Paris, newspaper feature service, March 30, 1924'; correspondence and handwritten notes including subjects such as training of speed swimmers and Australian competitors in the Olympic games; two postcard images of Australian swimmers in Durban, South Africa; publication titled 'Swimming in all its branches, the authorative work for the swimmers of the world by T.W. Sheffield; photographs including young male swimmers, Captain T.W. Sheffield, Johnny Weismuller and Duke Kahanamoku at the world swimming, William Bachrach (coach) and Johnny Weismuller, 1911-1924.

Publishers: [1888-1935].

Notes: Title supplied by cataloguer.

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MMS ID: 991020449079702626