Paintings & Prints

CC GBR 1957 menu card R.M.S. °Queen Elizabeth° - Henley Regatta °Thames Challenge Cup°
CC GER 1933 CIGARETTEN-BILDERDIENST album No. 2 °Moderne Malerei° No. 72 - Alfred Sisley °Regatta at Molesey°

The name of this painting on the back is incorrect: it should read "Molesey"

instead of "Henley". Molesey Regatta is still held annually in July on the river

Thames (race distance 850 m downstream).
CC GER 1936 OG Berlin YRAMOS CIGARETTES series F No. 93 - Drawing °Wassersport° by Albert Janesch (AUT)


	The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sport teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States. It was founded in 1954, and its headquarters are at Princeton, New Jersey.

The image is a painting from Sydney H. Riesenberg (1885-1971) - see Painting USA

The Detroit Boat Club was founded in 1839.

It is the oldest rowing club in the U.S.A. and

the second oldest continuosly operating rowing

club in the world. During the first 60 years of

its history the club built three wooden boat-

houses which all burnt to the ground. The

image shows the fourth boathouse which has

withstood fire till today.

The magazine TIP TOP WEEKLY was promoted as °An Ideal Publication for the American Youth°. The short stories surrounded the sporting adventures of fictional characters Dick and Frank Merriwell.

The New London Boat Race or Yale-Harvard Boat Race is an annual contest between M8+ crews of Harvard University and Yale University. First rowed in 1852, it is America's oldest athletic competition.	The coloured drawing shows an incident during the 1890 race when the Yale stroke broke his oar and dove over- board. Yale still won the race.