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Speed Skating Course on Humboldt Park Lagoon, 1902

 

 

 

Speed Skating Course on Humboldt Park Lagoon, 1902

While most of the lagoons were used for free skating, races were also popular among youths through much of the twentieth century. Here a race course is marked with flags on the frozen lagoon in front of the Humboldt Park Fieldhouse in 1902.