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Paris High School Girls' Basketball Team, c. 1915-18

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

This photograph, c. 1915-18, shows a basketball team of female high school students who had played in the gym at the Community Building. For a list of the persons in this photograph, see the inscription.

There are two copies of this photograph, each with separate strengths and weaknesses. Both have been included in this entry.

This image was printed on the twenty-ninth page of photographs in At the Forks of the Grand: Volume II by D. A. Smith.

Inscriptions

(On original matting)

A basketball team that played in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium about 1918. This was the period when girls were beginning to wear "gym bloomers," and to take part in strenuous sports.

Alice Carnie, Irene Patterson, Leila Elliot, Kathleen Flahiff
Dorothy Haire, Florence Inksater, M. Pascoe, Gladys Patterson
Hazel Folsetter, Doris Cornish

Date of Original

[ca. 1915-18]

Dimensions

Width: 23 cm
Height: 16 cm

Subject(s)

Basketball
Basketball players
Sports
Youth
Sports - Basketball
Women basketball players
Paris, Ontario

Local identifier

1999.1113.01

Collection

D.A. Smith Photograph Collection

Language of Item

English

Geographic Coverage

Paris

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2 Longitude: -80.38333

Recommended Citation

Paris High School Girls' Basketball Team, [ca. 1915-18], D.A. Smith Photograph Collection, 1999.1113.01, Paris Museum and Historical Society

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