今回は、ニューヨーク市立博物館で4月15日まで開催中の展覧会『New York on Ice Skating in the City』を紹介。1800年代から愛されるニューヨークの冬の娯楽「アイススケート」をテーマに、ビンテージ写真や絵画、ポスター、コスチュームなどでさかのぼる。
Thomas & Eno, lithographer
Union Pond, Williamsburgh, L.I., ca. 1863
Lithograph with hand coloring
Museum of the City of New York, The J. Clarence Davies Collection, 34.100.264
G. E. Jones, Publisher
Carnival of the Washington Skating Club, Brooklyn. February 10, 1862.
Lithograph
Museum of the City of New York, gift of Mr. Harry Shaw Newman and an Anonymous Donor, 47.89
Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co., printer
Empire City Skating Rink, ca. 1868
Color lithograph
Museum of the City of New York, The J. Clarence Davies Collection, 29.100.1544
The Biltmore Ice Gardens, ca. 1915
Byron Co.
Gelatin Silver Print
Museum of the City of New York, Byron Company Collection, 93.1.1.5968
Postcard of Thomas Healy’s Golden Glades, Ice Ballet Extravaganza and Midnight Parade, ca. 1916
Collection of Michael V. Susi
Photographer unknown
[Wollman Rink, Central Park], ca. 1955
Gelatin silver print
Museum of the City of New York, gift of the Department of Parks and Recreation, X2010.11.1296
Count Jean de Strelecki
[Charlotte in “Hip! Hip! Hooray!”], 1915
Gelatin silver print
Museum of the City of New York, gift of Leonie Sigrist, 46.404.26
Photographer unknown
[Water pipes at Rockefeller Center skating rink.], 1936
Gelatin silver print
Museum of the City of New York, gift of Rockefeller Center, X2010.11.3975
Tea Room – The Biltmore Ice Gardens, ca. 1915, 1919
Byron Co.
Gelatin Silver Print
Museum of the City of New York, Byron Company Collection, 93.1.1.5971
Skaters at Sara D. Roosevelt Park, 1935
Courtesy New York City Parks Photo Archive
Kate Wollman Memorial Rink at Prospect Park, 1961
Courtesy New York City Parks Photo Archive
Skaters at Lasker Rink, 1967
Courtesy New York City Parks Photo Archive
Mayor John V. Lindsay and Commissioner Thomas Hoving at Lasker Rink and Pool, Central Park, 1966
Courtesy New York City Parks Photo Archive
Flooded ballpark with skaters, Central Park, 1938
Courtesy New York City Parks Photo Archive
Speed-skating race at The Lake, Central Park, ca. 1928
Courtesy New York City Parks Photo Archive
Jake Forbes’s New York Americans sweater, 1925–26
Courtesy Hockey Hall of Fame
Red Dutton’s skates, ca. 1930
Courtesy Hockey Hall of Fame
House of Worth, maker
Charles Frederick Worth and Jean-Philippe Worth, designers
Coat worn for skating in duvetyn with mink trim, ca. 1890
Museum of the City of New York, gift of Princess Viggo according to bequest of Sarah Cooper Hewitt, 30.155.4
Season ticket for admission to Fifth Avenue skating pond issued to Miss Isabel Place, 1863
Museum of the City of New York, gift of Miss Florence S. Sullivan, 30.159.20