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Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A358. August 18, 1906. Image depicts men crawling into tubes of fabric that lay on the ground. Once at the far end, they need to stand up, fully enveloped in the tube, and make their way to the next obstacle or to a finish line. One man is fully enveloped and partially upright; two are in the middle of crawling through the tubes; one is just entering a tube. Officials and spectators (men and women) look on. See also Item 360, Item 376 and Item...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A359. August 18, 1906. Image depicts men playing their field positions and a batter in place. A few spectators look on from beneath trees on the sideline on the right, barely visible. The field is large and well maintained. Residential houses are visible In the background. Founders of the Draper Company, brothers George and Ebenezer Draper were responsible for creating an integrated, planned community with innovative employee housing and...

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A360. Another Obstacle Race challenge, Field Day, Hopedale, Massachusetts Gelatin silver print, [1974], from a glass plate negative, August 18, 1906. Image depicts another part of the obstacle race: men climbing through wooden barrels and then across a series of ropes hanging above the ground from a wooden frame. Officials and spectators look on. See also Item 358, Item 376 and Item 377, in this folder. 25 x 20.5 cm.

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A361. High Kick, Field Day, Hopedale, Massachusetts Gelatin silver print, [1974], from a glass plate negative, August 18, 1906. Image depicts a man in mid-air kicking right leg upward to hit an object hanging from a wooden frame. Officials and spectators look on. See Item 374, in this folder, for an almost identical view. 25 x 20.5 cm.

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A362. August 18, 1906. Image depicts a man attempting to jump over a pole (about 4.5 feet high) that spans two side supports. Officials stand by observing his jump. Spectators line both sides of the field. See Item 357, Item 378 and Item 379, in this folder, for other views of the high jump. 25 x 20.5 cm.

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A363. August 18, 1906. Image depicts a man participating in the pole vault. Having first propelled himself into the air with the use of a pole, he is pictured just clearing a horizontal bar held up by two supports. Officials stand by observing his vault. Spectators line both sides of the field; a tent is visible in the right background. 20.5 x 25 cm.

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A364. August 18, 1906. Image depicts three girls, each carrying a potato (possibly on a spoon?) and racing to their container (in the foreground) to place their potato without dropping it. Officials stand by observing the race. Spectators line both sides of the field; a number of girls in the background are probably about to participate, or already have participated, in the race. This event was most likely organized by the Draper Company and may...

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Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A365. August 18, 1906. Image depicts the bath house and residential buildings on the opposite shore of Hopedale Pond. It is unclear if anything organized is ongoing, but several groups of people are enjoying rowing boats and canoes on the water, along with one man in an inner tube. Note the two women in the boat in the foreground, one holding a parasol. 25 x 20.5 cm.

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A366. August 18, 1906. Image depicts the bath house and residential buildings viewed from the opposite shore of Hopedale Pond. In the background, in front of the bath house, men in two canoes are pulling on each end of a rope, attempting to gain control in a tug-of-war. Several groups of people are watching from rowboats and canoes nearby. Note the boat in the left background, which seems to consist entirely of women. Spectators can also be seen...

Scope and Contents Printed in 1974 from glass plate negative no.A367. August 18, 1906. Image depicts the bath house and residential buildings viewed from the opposite shore of Hopedale Pond. In the background, in front of the bath house, men in two canoes are pulling on each end of a rope, attempting to gain control in a tug-of-war. Several groups of people are watching from rowboats and a canoe nearby. Spectators can also be seen in front of the bath house and on the shore on either side of the bath house....