TC Mendenhall was a fellow historian and the dean of rowing history, he was Yale grad, Oxford scholar, president of Smith College, oar label: E Norris. The Olympic, Tubular (girder), Riverside Putney, London
Boat plate, inscribed: E. Waters & Sons, Builders, Troy NY, Patented May 11, 1869, No. 223. The boat plate was fastened to the hull production number 223, (mounted on display board)