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Hockey and Skating on Humboldt Park Lagoon, 1903

 

 

 

Hockey and Skating on Humboldt Park Lagoon, 1903

The lagoons in parks across Chicago, which were used for wading in the summer, were put to yearround use with skating. Children skate and play hockey in this view of the frozen Humboldt Park lagoon in 1903.