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Skating on the Jordán with the dam

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Name:: Skating on the Jordán with the dam
Description:: Skating on the Jordán.
Digital reproduction from a 13 × 18 cm glass negative; around 1900.
The maintained, and later illuminated, skating rink on the Jordán was a popular social attraction. Besides elegant ladies, boisterous boys and the sweeper who kept the ice smooth, notice also the poplars on the Jordán dam, which replaced the willows at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Automatic description:: Many men and women skate on the smooth ice wearing long coats, skirts and hats. Behind them is a row of tall bare poplars on the dam, with further groups of people in the distance.
Year:: Large glass plate negatives has been in use in the years 1880-1950.
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Author:: Ignác Šechtl (1840 - 1911), photographer, Šechtl & Voseček
Keywords:: Tábor, Jordán, sport, skates, skating
Automatic keywords:: bruslaři, led, muži, ženy, dlouhý kabát, sukně, hat, topoly, dam, winter
Material:: negative13x18
Categories:: Skating on Jordán
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