Digital Rowing Collections

Our Other History Projects

50 Years, 50 Stories Rowing history conversations with historians and rowers: interviews and stories celebrating the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta’s 50th anniversary.
Oral Histories Oral histories produced by the Rowing History Project.

Museum-style Websites, with Digitized Records and Photos

Australian Rowing History A comprehensive repository of Australian rowing history with a “museum” section containing scanned documents and books going back to 1890, and photos of trophies. The site also links to individual Australian rowing organizations, most of which display their own detailed history and records.
Rowing Archives Lenville O’Donnell’s repository for Pocock, U. of Washington, and 1936 Olympics, to migrate to new U. of Washington site.
Rowing Memorabilia German site of Helmut Mensch with numerous photographs categorized by topic.
Rowing Museum of the Netherlands A beautiful digital display of people, events and more in Netherlands rowing. Call it up in Google Chrome and click on translate.
Thames Rowing Club Archive History of Thames Rowing Club with digitized photos.
US Women’s Rowing History Archives Creating a permanent, comprehensive women’s rowing site.
Washington Rowing History U. of Washington rowing history; formerly Huskycrew.com.

Blogs and Searchable Magazines

Rowinghistory.net Bill Miller’s website, an extensive collection of rowing information.
Boathouse Row the Book Blogs by Dotty Brown, author of Boathouse Row, Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing.
Coxing Magazine Articles from its magazine.
Hear the Boat Sing Submitted articles coordinated by rowing historian Goran Buckhorn.
Row2K Blog on various topics.
Row 360 Articles from its magazine.
Rowing News Magazine Articles from its monthly publication.

Historical Archives with Digitized Photographs