Two women ice skate on a frozen pond, Boston, 1914

Item Overview

Title

Two women ice skate on a frozen pond, Boston, 1914

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

1914

Date

1914

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Two women ice skate on a frozen pond. It is either the Frog Pond in Boston Common or the pond in the Public Garden. The women hold hands and both wear hats, gloves, and coats. The woman on the right wears a fur scarf. There is another woman visible at the right. Two people walk on a path next to the pond. There are buildings, trees, benches, and a car in the background. There are light streaks at the bottom of the negative.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 424. Eastern trip, 1914. Massachusetts. Boston and vicinity. 12 pictures of skaters on the ice in the ponds on the Common in Boston. One of these is the celebrated "Frog Pond" that the school boys used to skate no during the revolution, and General Gage's soldiers broke the ice so they could not skate, and a delegation of boys called on General Gage and complained and he stopped the breaking of the ice. 12 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

Massachusetts--Boston

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lakes & ponds--Massachusetts--Boston
Ice skating--Massachusetts--Boston