The Universities' Boat-Race on the Thames: weighing the crew, 1874. 'The annual contest of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Clubs on the Thames between Putney and Mortlake [in London]...The rival crews have been practising over the course day after day, and their performance has been watched by thousands of critical observers on the river banks. Our Illustration represents the scene at the customary weighing of the men who are to wield an oar'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.
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