Nat Roe's Motorized Ice Scooter

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: January 1, 1908; 1908-01-01 Material: unknown material on plate glass; safety film; gelatin silver prints Dimension: 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (polyester negative); 4 x 5 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Creator: A. Noble Chapman Identifier: aql:11089 anc-000161 anc-000161.tif

Description: Mr. Roe poses in his motorized ice scooter on an unidentified roadway. This model was an improvement over one he'd designed and built the year before. Shaped like an ordinary catboat, the "Glorifier" was 40 feet overall and equipped with a 20-horsepower engine. It could be used as a motorboat in the summer with the attachment of a shaft and propeller. When the Glorifier ran into open water, and its captain wanted to get onto the ice again, he would throw out a grappling device and haul the scooter onto the ice by means of a windlass aboard the craft.

Title : Nat Roe's Motorized Ice Scooter

Collection : aql:10776; vital:1

Creator : A. Noble Chapman

Date : January 1, 1908; 1908-01-01

Summary/Description : Mr. Roe poses in his motorized ice scooter on an unidentified roadway. This model was an improvement over one he'd designed and built the year before. Shaped like an ordinary catboat, the "Glorifier" was 40 feet overall and equipped with a 20-horsepower engine. It could be used as a motorboat in the summer with the attachment of a shaft and propeller. When the Glorifier ran into open water, and its captain wanted to get onto the ice again, he would throw out a grappling device and haul the scooter onto the ice by means of a windlass aboard the craft.

Subject : Ice-boats; Automobiles

Relation : 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

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Patchogue, NY Patchogue (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; safety film; gelatin silver prints; 5 x 7 inches (glass plate negative); 4 x 5 (polyester negative); 4 x 5 (print); 8 x 10 (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:11089 anc-000161 anc-000161.tif