Avery Brundage Collection
The Avery Brundage Collection is held at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Avery Brundage was the president of the International Olympic Committee between 1952 and 1972. He participated in track and field in the 1912 Summer Olympics. After his career as an athlete, he moved into sports administration. The Avery Brundage Collection is comprised of a broad array of information related to the Olympics including: specific Olympic games between 1948 and 1972, specific sports, and amateurism. Material includes including correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, artifacts, certificates, awards and honours.
The collection has been microfilmed and two copies are available at Western University. One is at the Western Libraries Archives and Special Collections and the other is at the International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS).
Description of the Brundage Collection – created by Maynard Brichford, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and catalogues the contents at the folder level. It was published by Karl Hoffmann Verlag, Germany, in 1977, and is available at the Internet Archive.
Cross-reference from box numbers to reel numbers – must be used with the description above when making request for reels to view.
For additional Olympics archival material at Archives and Special Collections, see the James Worrall fonds.
