Winter - a skating scene – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Winter - a skating scene, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Winter - a skating scene
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Ice skating appears here as a leisure pursuit for women as well as men, a detail that stands out among the winter scenes this board collects. The wood engraving ran in Harper's Weekly on January 25, 1868, on page 52, when the illustrated weekly was among the most widely read sources of pictures of American life. Engravings like this one were cut into blocks of boxwood and printed alongside news and fiction, so they reached readers who would never see the original scene. Skating was a popular winter amusement in the period, drawing crowds to frozen ponds and rinks in town and country alike.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1868 Jan. 25), p. 52. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Winter scenes; Sports--Ice Skating--1868; Women; Publ. Ind.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,026 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151911 |
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