CASH DONATIONS:

The IISOH is seeking $1 million (one million Dollars) from a benefactor in order to establish an endowment for the sport of SWIMMING. This is a naming opportunity for the benefactor to have a perpetual identification with the sport of SWIMMING. The endowment would be named by the benefactor with the approval of the IISOH Board of Directors. The endowment becomes a permanent trust fund invested by the Institute with only the quarterly earned interest being used for development of the SWIMMING collections in both the Library and Museum.
Cash donations IN ANY AMOUNT are always welcome, too.

NON-CASH DONATIONS:

The Library and Museum eagerly accept donations of material that are within the scope of its collections. Collectors are encouraged to send us books, monographs, theses & dissertations, magazine and subscription collections for the library, as well as medals, pins, torches, posters, artwork and collectables for the Museum.

LIBRARY donations:

• Material in ANY language, including but not limited to English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Flemish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Latin, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Farsi, Sanskrit and dozens of others.
  The scope of the collection is international and comprehensive.
  
• Books
  
• Monographs
  
• Theses & Dissertations
  
• Bound and unbound serials (magazines, journals, etc)
  
• Newspapers (hard copies or microfilm)
• Juvenile literature
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Reference books
• Manuscripts
• Archives of organizations
• Original letters of correspondance
  
• Maps
  
• Ephemera (pamphlets, booklets, folders, flyers, tickets, etc).
  
• Miscellaneous items that do not fit into the above categories
  

MUSEUM donations:

• Swimming Posters
• Antique Swimming equipment
• Statuary in bronze, resin, plaster, terracotta, etc.
• Paintings, Serigraphs, Drawings, etc.
• Photographs, prints, negatives, glass plates, etc.
• Films, movies, videos, dvd's, especially older films in need of archival preservation
• Music, records, tapes, sheet music
• Graphics, 16th - 19th century lithographs & prints
• Swimming-related medals, awards, trophies
• Swimming commemorative medals, participation medals, badges, etc.
• Swimming pins
• Swimming flags, banners, advertising
• Swimming-related memorabilia
• Philatelic items, stamp collections, illustrated postcards on Swimming
• Numismatic items, coins, exonumia with Swimming themes
• Uniforms, clothing, textiles, fashions
• Physical education, recreation and play equipment related to Swimming
• Games, especially antique items

These lists are not comprehensive and are limited only by your imagination! Keep in mind that Swimming is an international sport and that we seek everything, in every language, in order to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world. The ancient Greeks wrote about swimming and Benjamin Franklin wrote about its educational benefits. It has been a national sport in Australia, where swimmers dominated the Olympic Games in the 1950's and 1960's and maintains intense interest in every Olympic Games.

The Institute's long-term goal is to become the most comprehensive collection in the world, so visit us often over the next ten decades.

For additional subject areas that we seek, see the list in the SUBJECTS area for endowments.
Go here to see the Subject List.

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