Girls' Field Day (1915)
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- Created Date
- 1915
- Description
Text on border reads, "Municipal Field Day, Pratt Field, 1915."
This lantern slide shows a large group of girls, a few men, and a few young women posing for a photograph around a truck. A sign on the vehicle reads, “Playgrounds - Girls Field Day - Pratt Field.” They are near Pratt Field, an athletic facility of the International YMCA College, now Springfield College. Sometime during 1915, Springfield College’s County Work class sponsored a Field Day for local girls and boys. During this event, children representing different “playgrounds” could compete in a variety of activities. This tradition appears to have started in the late-19th and early-20th century, when the school hosted Field Days for children between twelve and fifteen years old. They could compete in the 50-yard dash, 100-yard dash, running high jump, running broad jump, shotput, and sackrace. According to the Association Seminar, “Great interest was manifested and intense loyalty to the playground is being stimulated by inter-playground competition” (1903).
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- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution
- Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
- Collection
- College Archives Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Springfield College
- Subjects
- International Young Men's Christian Association College
Springfield College
Pratt Field
Springfield College--Athletic Fields
Springfield (Mass.)
Lantern slides
Trucks
Crowds
Athletic Fields - Type
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- Format
- Photographs
- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Girls' Field Day (1915). 1915. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3556. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1915) Girls' Field Day (1915). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3556
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3556>.