Bill Miller Collection

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1936 USA Olympic Eight
U Washington, winning gold medal/nearing finish line Olympia 1936 photo card - #14, German photo alblum, printed on back card description in German
1938 Life magazine article
About champion Joe Burk, with technique sequence photos
1938 Wiener Regatta-Verien medal
Obv. engraved: WIENER REGATTA-VEREIN, engraver: GRIENAUER, rev. engraved: %#. GROSSE WIENER INTERNATIONALE RUDER_REGATTA 1938
1939 NYRA winner's wood plaque
1939; cast medallion "New York Rowing Ass'n.", engraved: Jr. Single Gig, label on reverse: "Johnson National Insignia Co. Inc. 314 West 14th Street New York
1940 Dad Vail silver plate presentation tray
Inscribed: ****To**** Dr. Chester S. McGown, Whose Enthusiastic Co-Operation Made, The 1940 Dad Vail Regatta, At Springfield - Massachusetts, ***A Complete Success***, From The Oarsmen Of, A.I.C. Boston University, Dartmouth Manhattan, Marietta, Richmond, Rollins Rutgers, ***Springfield***, silver plate a bit rough
1941 Copenhagen Rowing Club bronze medal w/ribbon
Ribbon: blue & white pin back, obv: Kobenhavns Roklub, relief of sculler, 1866, rev: engraved Haandbold 1941
1941 German silvered-brass rectangular plaque
Obv: framed racing scene w/bridge background w/flag, "Interne Regatta R.C. Allemannia v. 1866", stamped "Kriegsjahr (War Year) 1941", rev: blank.
1946 bronze Czech memorial medal
Memorial To Commemorate The Fallen And Tortured Rowers, relief of bowed head of rower holding CZ flag and wreath, translation: UCTENI - Honoring, PAMATKY - Sites, PADLYCH - Fallen, UMUCENYCH - Tortured, VESLARU - Rowers. no inscription on reverse
1947 Yale Frosh def Harvard finish press photo
6/18/47; stamp: Acme Newspictures, label: Yale Frosh Crew Beats Harvard, New London, Conn... June 18. Yale Covered The Two Mile Route In The Time Of 9:43. The Harvard Time Was 9:52, Acme 6/18/47
1948 London (Henley) Olympic Rowing Official Programs
3/4 daily programs, (8/5, 8/6, 8/7, missing 8/8), results inscribed
1948 US Olympic Trials program
W/newspaper clippings
1950 World Championship Race, Philadelphia Challenge (Gold) Cup program
Amateur Single Sculling Championship of the World, Schuylkill River, (Kelly - Wood - Rowe)
1951 IRA Regatta press photo
Marietta, the 12-crew start, with description
1955 Vesper BC Pan American Eight press photo
March 29; defeating Argentina, Mexico City, label, bow-J Greiyp, 2-C McIlvaine Jr, 3-H Senoff, 4-G Hermann, 5-G Dorwatt III, 6-I Miller, 7-J Toland, 8-W Knecht, cox-A Rosenberg
1956 Olympic patch sewn on blazer pocket
Also used same in 1948 & 1952
1956 Olympic rowing felt pennant
USA crossed oars/Olympic rings XVI Olympiad
1957 Henley Royal Regatta, Grand Challenge Cup semi-final
Cornell def. Krasnoe Z (Russia) & course record (race Yale in final).
1958 King's Cup-Australia program
Photos and lists of crews entered