Diving
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on plunging into a swimming pool or other body of water, often while executing acrobatic stunts. Works on swimming underwater using equipment are entered under Deep diving.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
College Winter Sports Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: GEN 541
Scope and Contents
This collection contains winter sports media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Earlier guides cover only men’s sports, by the 1970s and 1980 most guides include both men’s and women’s sports. The guides tend to emphasize basketball and/or ice hockey. But winter sports media guides also include information about other traditional winter sports, including wrestling, track and field, swimming and diving, and sometimes gymnastics, fencing,...
Dates:
1947-1999; Majority of material found in 1950-1976
Daniel P. Connor, Jr., Manchester, New Hampshire, Winter Carnival Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_7004
Content Description
A scrapbook compiled by the physical culture enthusiast Daniel P. Connor, Jr. The main focus of the scrapbook is the Manchester Winter Carnival of January 1923. During the Carnival young daredevil cliff divers taught by Connor received considerable publicity. In addition to news clippings, the scrapbook contains 139 photographic prints of Connor and his divers plus an additional 45 prints of other Carnival activities. The collection also includes about 20 letters mostly pertaining to the...
Dates:
1919-31; Majority of material found in 1923