Out of door sports - the Caledonian and Thistle clubs playing the Scottish national game of curling upon the frozen pond in the Central Park, New York / from a sketch by our own artist. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Out of door sports - the Caledonian and Thistle clubs playing the Scottish national game of curling upon the frozen pond in the Central Park, New York / from a sketch by our own artist.
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Curling, the Scottish game of sliding stones across ice toward a target, is the sport this engraving puts at the center of the scene, with members of the Caledonian and Thistle clubs playing on a frozen pond in Central Park. The park was still young in 1860 and only partly finished, and the presence of Scottish clubs on its ice shows how immigrant societies were bringing their traditions into new public grounds. The print ran in *Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper* in January 1860, based on a sketch by the paper's own artist and cut into wood for reproduction, which makes it a useful record of winter leisure in the city.
| Created / published | 1860 Jan. 14. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860.Wood engravings 1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1860 Jan. 14, p. 104. |
| Subjects | Ice skating--New York (State)--New York--1860. Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,241 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184773 |
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