Shrewsbury Ice Boating and Yacht Club, Shrewsbury, NJ

Photograph

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Saco Museum

Name/Title

Shrewsbury Ice Boating and Yacht Club, Shrewsbury, NJ

Entry/Object ID

2010.46.144

Description

Glass lantern slide of members of the Shrewsbury Ice Boating and Yacht Club preparing for an ice boating race. "Shrewsbury Sea Yacht Club, Pleasure Bay" is written on slide label. Here, Moody has captured a group of men preparing for an ice boating race at Pleasure Bay. The shingled building has a sign for the "Shrewsbury IB & YC"--an ice boating and yacht club founded in 1890. Various papers of the day reported on their participation in local ice boating competitions, as well as social events held at their Atlantic Avenue clubhouse.

Made/Created

Artist

Moody, Charles E.

Date made

circa 1905