[Curling on Jamaica Pond, Boston, Massachusetts] – Vintage Print
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(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: [Curling on Jamaica Pond, Boston, Massachusetts], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Curling on Jamaica Pond, Boston, Massachusetts]
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Curling on Jamaica Pond in Boston, Massachusetts, captures a winter sport that was once a regular pastime on the city's frozen ponds, set in the Olmsted-designed park system of Jamaica Plain. The record dates the image only to the 1890s, so the exact season is uncertain, but the scene reflects a period when skating, sledding, and ice games drew crowds to the water after a hard freeze. Curling, a Scottish game played by sliding stones across ice toward a target, had a devoted following among Boston's Scottish and Canadian communities. The print offers a useful look at how urban parks were used for recreation in the late nineteenth century.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [189-?] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,230 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125171 |
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