WRESTLING ENDOWMENT

The IISOH is seeking a minimum of $1 million (one million Dollars) from a benefactor in order to establish an endowment for the sport of WRESTLING. This is a naming opportunity for the benefactor to have a perpetual identification with the sport of WRESTLING. 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 WRESTLING collections in both the Library and Museum.
Cash donations IN ANY AMOUNT can also be made to the WRESTLING endowment at any time and are always welcome.

For more details about the Institute's endowment program, please click hereEndowment Program

WRESTLING COLLECTION - NON-CASH DONATIONS:

The Library and Museum eagerly accept donations of material that are within the scope of its collections. Collectors are encouraged to donate books, monographs, theses & dissertations, magazine and subscription collections for the library, as well as medals, pins, torches, posters, graphic art, original artwork and collectables for the Museum. The wrestling collection includes amateur wrestling such as the folkstyles in the USA (college, high school) and other nations (Icelandic Glima, Japanese Sumo, British Cumberland & Westmoreland, etc). It also includes the wrestling forms in the ancient and modern Olympic Games, modern professional wrestling (TV & entertainment), and the latest innovations in the sport which includes women in wrestling. The mission is to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world.

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:

• Wrestling Posters
• Antique Wrestling equipment, such as ancient Greek strigils
• 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
• Wrestling-related medals, awards, trophies
• Wrestling commemorative medals, participation medals, badges, etc.
• Wrestling pins
• Wrestling flags, banners, advertising
• Wrestling-related memorabilia
• Philatelic items, stamp collections, illustrated postcards on Wrestling
• Numismatic items, coins, exonumia with Wrestling themes
• Uniforms, clothing, textiles, fashions
• Physical education, recreation and play equipment related to Wrestling
• Games, especially antique items

These lists are not comprehensive and are limited only by your imagination! Keep in mind that Wrestling is the oldest known sport in the world. It is an international sport on the amateur level as well as a professional sport. We seek everything, in every language, in order to develop the most comprehensive collection in the world. The WRESTLING collection will include the PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING collection which is not a sport, but rather entertainment. Professional wrestling in the late 19th century was real but in the first half of the 20th century it became entertainment. Today it is a very popular television spectacle.

The Institute's long-term goal is to become the most comprehensive collection in the world, so visit us often over the next few 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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This page was created February 23, 2002
This page was updated June 27, 2008

Contact:
International Institute for Sport and Olympic History (IISOH)
PO Box 175
State College, PA, USA 16804

Mr. Harvey Abrams, President

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