Intercollegiate boat race, 1875

newspaper engraving

PRINTS - ENGRAVINGS
Harper's Weekly; Davis, Theodore R.
USA, NY, Saratoga Lake
1875-07-24
paper
11 x 16 in.

Newspaper engraving; page 597 from "Harper's Weekly", July 24, 1875; taped to mat; caption printed at bottom of page "THE INTERCOLLEGIATE BOAT-RACE - HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE CREWS AND MAP OF THE COURSE. - FROM SKETCHES BY THEO. R. DAVIS."; map of Lake Saratoga in center, with 13 vignettes around identified as follows, from upper left: Amherst Boat House; Union at Arnolds; College Hotel, Williams; Columbia at D. Engrem's; Holmes Hotel, Brown; Dartmouth Boat House; Southgates Cottage, Cornell; Hamilton at Harts; Wesleyan at N. Ramsdills; Yale, Moon's Lake House; Princeton at T. Arnold's; Jas Riley's Bowdoin; Harvard's Cottages, White Sulphur Springs. Dated 1875 in pencil on mat. [2 duplicates, not numbered, in red box. See last item on last page]

2005.110.77