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 30: Programs for Regional Games

Box 343

Item 23: Amerika Euorpa, Stuttgart, July 30-31, 1969

Sub-Series 1: Asian Games

Item 24: 3rd Asian Games, Tokyo, Bulletin, March 1958
Item 25: 3rd Asian Games, Tokyo, Athletics Program, May 26, 1958
Item 26: 3rd Asian Games, Tokyo, Cycling Closing Ceremony Program, June 1, 1958
Item 27: Transactions, Asian Games Federations, April 29 - May 4, October, November 4-8, 1968
Item 28: 6th Asian Games, Bangkok, Official Bulletin, Nos. 1-2, December 9-20, 1970
Folder 29: Organizing Committee for II ABC Women's Basketball Championship, 1968

Box 344

Item 1: British Empire vs. United States, August 11, 1928

Item 2: British Empire vs. United States, August 27, 1930

Item 3: British Empire vs. United States, August 14, 1932

Item 4: British Empire vs. United States, August 15, 1936

Item 5: British Empire vs. United States, August 12, 1948

Item 6: V Baron Pierre du Coubertin International Athletic Games, Bueon Aires, October 22-23, 1966

Item 7: VI Baron Pierre du Coubertin International Athletic Games, Buenos Aires, October 28-29, 1967

Item 8: European Games, Turin, September 7-9, 1934

Item 9: European Games, 3rd European Championships, August 1946

Item 10: 3rd International Friendly Youth Games, Moscow, July 29-September 5, 1961

Item 11: 6th Maccabiah Games, Tel Aviv, Sports Program, August 29 - September 5, 1961

Item 12: 6th Maccabiah Games, Tel Aviv, Sports Results, August 29 - September 5, 1961

Item 13: Nippon-America, 1934

Sub-Series 2: Pan American Games I - Buenos Aires

Item 14: First Congress, 1940

Item 15: General Rules and Programs, 1942

Item 16: General Rules and Programs, 1951

Sub-Series 30.2.1: Official Programs

Item 17: Athletics, 1951
Item 18: Baseball, 1951
Item 19: Basketball, 1951
Item 20: Boxing, 1951
Item 21: Cycling, 1951
Item 22: Equestrian Games, 1951
Item 23: Fencing, 1951
Item 24: Football, 1951
Item 25: Gymnastics, 1951
Item 26: Modern Pentathalon, 1951
Item 27: Polo, 1951
Item 28: Rowing, 1951
Item 29: Shooting, 1951
Item 30: Swimming, 1951
Item 31: Tennis, 1951
Item 32: Weight-Lifting, 1951
Item 33: Wrestling, 1951
Item 34: Yachting, 1951

Item 35: Pan American Games II, Mexico City - Official News Bulletin, July 1951, February 1952

Item 36: Pan American Games III, Chicago - Track and Field Album, 1967

Item 37: Pan American Games V, Winnipeg - Schedule of Events, July 22 - August 7, 1967

Item 38: South African Games, May 9-10, 1964

Sub-Series 3: South East Asia Peninsular Games

Item 39: Report on the Meeting of Council Members, June 25, 1959
Item 40: III Games, 1963, Bulletin No. 1, October 1962

Item 41: The International Stoke Mandeville Games for the Paralysed, Rome, September 18-25, 1960

Item 42: Tailteann Games, Dublin, August 11-26, 1928

Box 345

Sub-Series 4: Universaide

Item 1: Bulletino d'Informazione, No. 1-3, March, June, August 1959

Item 2: Information Bulletin No. 9, April 1961

Sub-Series 30.4.1: General Regulations

Item 3: Sofia, August 26 - September 3, 1961
Item 4: Porto Alegre, August 30 - September 8, 1963, September 1962
Item 5: Budapest, August 1964, August 20-29, 1965