Finding Aid for Avery Brundage Collection, 1908-82 | University of Illinois Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Avery Brundage Collection, 1908-82

ID: 26/20/37

Primary Creator: Brundage, Avery (1887-1975)

Extent: 152.4 cubic feet

Arrangement: by sub-series and alphabetical or chronological thereunder

Date Acquired: 02/05/1975. More info below under Accruals.

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Collection of Avery Brundage '09 (1887-75), including correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, artifacts, certificates, awards, honors, publications concerning Brundage's service as president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72), United States Olympic Committee (1929-52) and Amateur Athletic Union (1928-36); national Olympic committees; international sports federations; Olympic games in Australia (1956), England (1948), Finland (1952), Germany (1936, 1972), Italy (1960), Japan (1964) and Mexico (1968); winter Olympic games in Austria (1964), France (1968), Italy (1956), Japan (1972), Norway (1952), Switzerland (1948) and the United States (1960); controversies over the participation of teams from China (1959-66), Germany (1953-65), Korea (1953-68) and South Africa (1963-73); bids for Olympic games (1938-73); international athletic competition; National Collegiate Athletic Association (1952-74); colleges and universities and amateurism. Sports federation and subject files cover basketball, boxing, equestrian sports, fencing, gymnastics, hockey, rowing, sailing, skating, skiing, soccer, swimming, track and field, and wrestling. Correspondence includes J. Lyman Bingham, Asa S. Bushnell, J. Sigfrid Edstram, Daniel J. Ferris, William M. Garland, Gustavus T. Kirby, Otto Mayer, Frederic W. Rubien, Heinz Schobel and James Simms.

Subject/Index Terms

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Amateur Athletic Union],
[Series 2: Amateurism],
[Series 3: Colleges and Universities],
[Series 4: Individuals],
[Series 5: IOC Presidents and Secretariat],
[Series 6: IOC Members],
[Series 7: Bulletin Officiel du Comite International Olympique],
[Series 8: IOC Newsletter],
[Series 9: Circular Letters],
[Series 10: Duplicate Circular Letters],
[Series 11: Circular Letter Responses],
[Series 12: IOC Meetings],
[Series 13: IOC Minutes],
[Series 14: IOC Commissions and Committees],
[Series 15: IOC Subject File],
[Series 16: National Olympic Committees],
[Series 17: Olympic Games],
[Series 18: Olympic Games Bids],
[Series 19: Regional Games],
[Series 20: Sports Federations],
[Series 21: Sports Organizations],
[Series 22: Sports Publications],
[Series 23: United States Olympic Association and Committee],
[Series 24: Personal Materials],
[Series 25: Articles and Speeches],
[Series 26: Publications],
[Series 27: Clippings],
[Series 28: Photographs],
[Series 29: Olympic Games Programs],
[Series 30: Programs for Regional Games],
[Series 31: Sports Programs],
[Series 32: Subject File],
[Series 33: Travel],
[Series 34: Book Notes and Sources],
[Series 35: Important Letters],
[Series 36: Microfilm],
[Series 37: Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes],
[Series 38: Scrapbooks],
[Series 39: Audiovisual],
[Series 40: Photo Albums],
[Series 41: Certificates and Awards],
[Series 42: Oversize File],
[[information restricted]],
[Series 44: Series Additions, 2023],
[All]

Series 42: Oversize File

Sub-Series 1: Oversize Publications

Box 436

Sub-Series 1: Mexico 68

In Spanish and German

Volume 1: El Pais
Volume 2: La Organizacion
Volume 3: Los Deportes
Item 4: "Twelve Museums of Mexico": pamphlet

Sub-Series 2: Olympic Newsletter and Pictorial Review

Item 1: Mexico 68: In English except where noted.
Item 2: Mexican Culture and Olympics, 1968: Numbers 1-9, 10 (one English, one Spanish), 11-19, 20 (one English, one Spanish), 21, 22-24 (one English, one Spanish), 25.

Box 437

Sub-Series 1: Mexico 68

In Spanish and German

Volume 4: La Olimpiada Cultural
Item 2: XIX Olympiad 7, 1968
Item 3: XIX Olympiad 8, 1968
Item 4: Pindaro Olympicas: Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1312, Fol. 1-95, 1968

Sub-Series 2: Olympic Newsletter

Item 1: Olympic Newsletter: Numbers 26-37, 38-40 (one English, one Spanish), 41 (issue on Brundage), pictorial review (one English, one Spanish), 42 (one English, one Spanish), 43

Box 438

Folder 1: 1st Pan-American Games, December 1950, January 1951, February 1951: Numbers 1-3, from Box 222 (old box 202)
Folder 2: II Semana Deportiva International Centro de Prensa, Mexico City, December 12-20, 1966: From Box 227 (old box 206).
Folder 3: IX Central American and Carribbean Games, Kingston, Jamaica, Rules and General Program, July 21-August 4, 1962
Folder 4: 1970 Calendar, XIth Olympic Winter Games, 1970: From box 196 (old box 179)
Folder 5: Asahi Evening News, May 1967: From box 282, folder: Publications - Asahi Evening News, 2 copies
Folder 6: Asahi Picture News, 1958: 2 copies, from box 282, folder Asahi
Folder 7: Asahi Sports, 1938: From Box 282, Folder Asahi Sports
Folder 8: Bulletin of the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXth Olympiad, October 1968, May 1969, May 1970, March 1971, September 1971, June 1972: Volumes 1-7, from box 199 (old box 181)
Folder 9: Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, 1960, 1961: 2 copies, from Box 283, folder Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine
Folder 10: Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, 1972: From box 272, folder: Personal Materials - Articles by others: Amateurisms, AAU, Olympic Movement, 1939, 1947-48, 1972, folder 1 of 2
Folder 11: Contrasts 3, 1964: From box 116, folder, Olympic Medals, Emblems, Souvenirs, Buttons
Folder 12: Cortina, 1956: From box 175 (old box 161)
Folder 13: Destino, January 15, 1972, July 15, 1972: Numbers 1789, 1815, from box 284, folder: Destino
Folder 14: Everybody's, July 12, 1952: From Box 284, folder: Everybody's
Folder 15: Hockey Fan, March 1964: From box 239, Folder Sports Federations, Field Hockey, 1937-38, 1950-52, 1964-66
Folder 16: Holiday, November 1964: Volume 36, no. 5, From box 286, folder Holiday

Box 439

Folder 1: Italia Sportiva, January 1, 1953: From Box 256 (old 230)
Folder 2: The Japan Magazine, July 1936: Volume XXVI, Numbers 1-2, from box 289, folder Japan Magazine
Folder 3: Kniessel, 1972: From Box 243, folder Sports Federations: Skiing Violations, Advertisements, 1972
Folder 4: Melbourne, 1956: From box 176 (old 162)
Folder 5: National Skiing, 1957-58: From box 256 (old 230)
Folder 6: The New York Times, January 16, 1972: From box 292, Folder The New York Times
Folder 7: Neve Ghiaccio Sole, April 24, 1949: From box 256 (old 230)
Folder 8: Olympia 72, August 1972: Issue 3, from box 202 (old 183)
Folder 9: Olympicus, Rome, 1960: From box 184 (old 168)
Folder 10: Pace, September 1968: From Box 296, Folder: Pace
Folder 11: Paris Match, March 2, 1968: From box 296, folder: Paris Match
Folder 12: Perspectives, March 16, 1968: From box 296, folder: Perspectives
Folder 13: Pictorial California, 1932, 1952: From box 296, folder Pictorial California
Folder 14: La Pintura Columbiana en los VI Jeugos Panamericanos de Cali, 1971: 2 copies, from box 227 (old 205)

Box 440

Folder 1: Saturday Evening Post, 1938, 1955: 3 issues, from box 299, folder: Saturday Evening Post
Folder 2: Ski Magazine, 1972: From box 243, folder: Sports Federations, Skiing, Violations, Advertisements, 1972
Folder 3: Sport in the Week, 1966: From box 301, folder: Sport in the Week
Folder 4: This Week, 1952: From box 301, folder: This Week
Folder 5: Tokio, 1964: From Box 189 (old 173)
Folder 6: Weekend Magazine, October 28, 1967: Volume 13, number 3, from box 224, folder Clippings - Sports - Ice Hockey, folder 1 of 2, 1960-70
Folder 7: Weekend Magazine, 1968: From box 303, folder Weekend Magazine

Sub-Series 2: Oversize Scrapbooks

Box 441

Item 1: Certificate of Acceptance by Avery Brundage of the National Collegiate and Scholastic Swimming Trophy, Melbourne, December 7, 1956
Item 2: Olympia, New York, Summer 1936: 2 copies
Item 3: The World Magazine, "America's All-Around Champion and his Stringent Rules for Athletic Success", October 1, 1916: 5 copies

Sub-Series 3: Oversize Photographs

Box 441

Item 4: Dr. Theodore Lewald, 1957
Item 5: Chicago Athletic Association Dinner, January 30, 1930
Item 6: Avery Brundage at the British Empire Games, 1930
Item 7: McKendree Gaskill: from Box 335
Item 8: Douglas MacArthur: From Box 335
Item 9: AAU Banquet Lead Table, November 1955: from Box 335
Item 10: Los Angeles, October 8, 1941: from Box 335
Item 11: Garden, Santa Barbara, CA: from Box 335
Item 12: Skating Championships, West Allis, Wisconsin, February 29, 1970: from Box 335
Item 13: Montreal 1976 Stadium Model: from Box 335
Item 14: Avery Brundage, ca. 1956: from Box 335

Sub-Series 4: Oversize Posters

Box 442

Sub-Series 1: No Cross-Reference

Item 1: Sports in Africa, General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, Yaounde, Federal Republic of Cameroon, 1971-72: 8 copies
Item 2: Pencil Sketch, Avery Brundage, IOC President, Portrait with Asian Art and 1912 Olympics by Al Rainovic, 1968

Sub-Series 2: Cross-Reference

Item 1: Baron de Coubertin, Club Athletico Sudamerica (flag), 1969: Flag, from Box 108, Folder IOC SF - 75th Anniversary Celebrations of IOC Argentina, 1969.
Item 2: Bueone Aires (flag), 1969: Flag, from Box 108, folder IOC SF - 75th Anniversary Celebratin of IOC Argentina, 1969.
Item 3: "Innsbruck, 1964", 1964: From Box 185, folder Olympic Games - IX Winter Games, Innsbruck - Data, part 1
Item 4: Decorations for the Passage of the Olympic Torch, 1964: From Box 189, Folder XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, Organizing Comittee, 1964.
Item 5: Draft Program for 19th Olympics.: From Box 193-94 (old box 177).
Item 6: Seat Guide for the Royal Box: From Box 190, folder XVIII Olympiad, Tokyo, Seat Guide for Royal Box.
Item 7: Olympische Dorf, 50m (map), 1972: Map, from box 202, folder Olympic Games - XX Olympiad Munich - Olympic Village, Kiel, 1972.
Item 8: Sport Arena, Sion, Switzerland, 1963: From box 209, folder Olympic Games Bids, 1968, Sion, Swizterland, 1963
Item 9: Revised ICAAAA Indoor Track Meet, Madison Square Garden (Blueprint), 1930-37: Blueprint from box 229, folder Sports Federations - IAAF, Part 1, 1930-37
Item 10: Trappeur, 1972: From box 243, folder: Sports Federations, Skiing, Violations, Advertisements, 1972.
Item 11: World Cup Winnter, 1972.: From box 243, Sports Federations, Skiing Violations, Advertisements, 1972.
Item 12: Vile de Pont du Chateau, 1967-69: From box 247, folder: Federation Internationale de Lutte Amateur, 1967-69.
Item 13: "Thank you, Mr. Brundage, We're Voting Yes on A", June 4, 1964: From Box 273, Folder: "Thank you Mr. Brundage," 4 copies.
Item 14: How to Go Argentina: From box 349, folder: Travel-Argentina.