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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
1897 Photograph of Visitors Streaming to Athletic Outing on Travers
Island in Pelham Manor
Below is an interesting photograph that shows visitors streaming across
the causeway to Travers Island in Pelham Manor in 1897 to attend athletic
games on the Island at the summer clubhouse of the New York Athletic Club.
The photograph shows the old clubhouse on the Island before it was
destroyed by fire on January 5, 1901. Interestingly, the causeway no
longer exists because the small bay has since been filled and a parking
area stands on and near the area.
The photograph appeared in the November, 1897 issue of "Outing" magazine
as part of an article about the first of a series of athletics matches
between the Chicago Athletic Association and the New York Athletic Club
held on October 2, 1897.
Source: Athletics: The East Against the West in Outing, Vol.
XXX, No. 2, p. 203 (Nov. 1897).
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