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, photos of trophies. The site also links to individual Australian rowing organizations, most of which display their own detailed history and records.

https://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/home#gsc.tab=0

 

Poughkeepsie Regattas 1891-1949

https://exhibits.archives.marist.edu/s/regatta/page/about

 

Rowing Archives

Lenville O’Donnell’s repository for Pockock, U. of Washington, and 1936 Olympics to migrate to new U. of Washington site

https://rowingarchives.org/

 

Rowing Memorabilia 

German site of Helmut Mensch with numerous photographs categorized by topic

https://rowing-memorabilia.de/index.php

 

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

https://roeimuseum.nl/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

 

Thames Rowing Club Archive

History of Thames Rowing Club with digitized photos

https://thamesrcarchive.co.uk/

 

US Women’s Rowing History Archives

Creating permanent, comprehensive women’s rowing site

https://womensrowingarchives.org/

 

Washington Rowing History 

U of Washington Rowing History; formerly Huskycrew.com

https://washingtonrowinghistory.org/

 

Blogs and Searchable Magazines 

 

Bill Miller Website -extensive collection of rowing information 

Rowinghistory.net 

 

Boathouse Row the Book - blogs by Dotty Brown, author of Boathouse Row, Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing

https://boathouserowthebook.com/blog/ 

 

Coxing Magazine - Articles from its magazine

https://www.coxingmagazine.com/home 

 

Hear the Boat Sing - submitted articles coordinated by Rowing Historian Goran Buckhorn

Heartheboatsing.com 

 

Row2K - blog on various topics

https://www.row2k.com/blogs/ 

 

Row 360 - Articles from its magazine

https://row-360.com/ 

 

Rowing News Magazine - Articles from its monthly publication

https://www.rowingnews.com/ 

 

Historical Archives with Digitized Photographs 

 

Library of Congress - Numerous historic photographs

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=rowing&sg=true

 

Temple University Library–Temple Digital Collections - Many digitized photographs from the Philadelphia Inquirer and former Philadelphia Bulletin https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/search/searchterm/rowing/order/nosort

 

Some Physical Rowing Collections in Philadelphia

 

Many rowing books and records are available for in-person viewing in such Philadelphia institutions as the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the library of the Independence Seaport Museum (J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library), University of Pennsylvania and other area universities..  To locate some of these records, go to:

https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records?search_field=all_fields&q=rowing

 

Also see:

Free Library of Philadelphia

https://catalog.freelibrary.org/Search/Results?lookfor=rowing&submit=&searchTech=catalog&searchType=simple

 

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Has minute books, photographs and other records of Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club, Malta Boat Club, Undine Barge Club, Vesper Boat Club, among others

https://discover.hsp.org/Search/Results?lookfor=%22Rowing+clubs%22&type=Subject&
 

Independence Seaport Museum - Has archives of several clubs on Boathouse Row and the Schuylkill Navy. These are now housed in its J. Welles Henderson Research Center. A digital index to its physical holdings is under construction

 

Temple University Special Collections Research Center

Holds physical copies of historic news articles about rowers and rowing in newspaper clips from the Philadelphia Bulletin and Philadelphia Inquirer

https://library.temple.edu/scrc

 

University Rowing Archives

Numerous collegiate rowing programs have their own pages.