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Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry -- Sports

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

Men's basketball team picture with basketball marked "Drexel '97-'98", 1897-1898

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: 1897-1898

Men's basketball team with basketball at center, 1915-1916

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: 1915-1916

Men's basketball team with basketball marked "11-12", 1911-1912

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: 1911-1912

Men's basketball team with commemorative basketball, 1903-1904

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: 1903-1904

Men's basketball team with silver trophy at center, 1897

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: 1897

Men's mechanical drawing basketball team with Drexel banner and basketball marked "M.D. '09" , 1909

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: 1909

Office of the President records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-005
Overview This collection consists of subject files created by the Office of the President during the tenures of the first six presidents of the Drexel Institute: James MacAlister (1840-1913, president 1891-1913), Hollis Godfrey (1874-1936, president 1914-1921), Kenneth Matheson (1864-1931, president 1921-1932), Parke R. Kolbe (1881-1942, president 1932-1942), George P. Rea (1894-1978, president 1942-1944), and James Creese (1896-1966, president 1945-1963), as well as during the interim presidency of...
Dates: 1891-1965; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1954

Parke R. Kolbe, 1899-1942, bulk: 1932 - 1942

 Series
Identifier: Series IV
Scope and content note Series 4: Kolbe, Parke R. 200 Folders This is the largest series in the collection. There is material on the Athletic Departments of Drexel during Kolbe’s tenure including budgets, data from local colleges athletic departments during the 1930’s, and a study from 1931 on athletic departments within the Middle Atlantic region correspondence with the Board of Trustee Committee on Athletics, reports on the responsibilities for the Athletic Departments of various universities, correspondence and...
Dates: 1899-1942; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1942

Parke R. Kolbe administration records

 Collection
Identifier: UR-01-004
Abstract Parke Rexford Kolbe, the Drexel Institute's fourth president, served from 1932 to 1942. Before coming to Drexel, Dr. Kolbe was president of the University of Akron from 1913 to 1925 and of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1925 to 1932. As Drexel's president, Dr. Kolbe presided over the decentralization of Drexel's administration and the development of educational programs to support national defense as the threat of U.S. involvement in World War II loomed. The bulk of the...
Dates: 1931-1941

Portrait of an unidentified male fencer , undated

 Item
Identifier: Series II
Scope and Contents note From the Series:

Team photographs of both men’s and women’s athletic teams. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1890s to the 1910s. Basketball is the most represented sport.

Dates: undated