Ice skating near Greenmanville Avenue, houses and Seventh Day Baptist Church in view

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:2821

Persons

Creator (cre): Newbury, Edward H., 1867-1960

Title

Ice skating near Greenmanville Avenue, houses and Seventh Day Baptist Church in view

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1890 to 1910

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Children and adults ice skate in an area that is now the south parking lot of Mystic Seaport. A man helps a boy with his skates in the foreground. A girl stands to the right looking toward the camera. Houses and the Seventh Day Baptist Church on Greenmanville Avenue can be seen to the left and in the background.

Genre

Subject

Baptist church buildings

Geographic Subject

Greenmanville Avenue (Mystic, Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; 4 x 5 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Newbury Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Environment

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. The Greenmanville Seventh Day Baptist Church was organized in 1850 and the building built in 1851. It originally stood near the south end of what is now Mystic Seaport. The church was moved north to its present location on the grounds of Mystic Seaport in 1954. Taken by Edward H. Newbury, a Mystic businessman and amateur photographer.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1980.41.472

IMG0053-4168.tif

Ice skating near Greenmanville Avenue, houses and Seventh Day Baptist Church in view

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