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Ice Scooter Race

Collection: This image is from the A. Noble Chapman Photographs and is depicted in a glass plate negative, polyester negative, prints, and digital image.; Image is part of the A. Noble Chapman Photographs
Date: 1906 Material: unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 5 x 7 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: A. Noble Chapman Identifier: aql:10950 anc-000040 anc-000040.tif

Description: Blue Point was a center of racing activity and the meeting place for "scooters," a kind of rudderless ice boat that was developed on Long Island's south bays. The Blue Point Scooter Club was formed in 1905.

Collection : aql:10776; vital:1

Creator : A. Noble Chapman

Date : 1906

Summary/Description : Blue Point was a center of racing activity and the meeting place for "scooters," a kind of rudderless ice boat that was developed on Long Island's south bays. The Blue Point Scooter Club was formed in 1905.

Subject : Ice-boats; Boats and boating

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Blue Point, NY Blue Point (N.Y.) Suffolk County (N.Y.)

Type : glass plate negative; black and white negative; black and white prints; digital image

Format : unknown material on plate glass; gelatin silver prints; 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 5 x 7 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:10950 anc-000040 anc-000040.tif

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Subject:
Ice-boats; Boats and boating
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