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Ice Skaters in Washington Park, c.1905
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The Midway linking Washington and Jackson Parks was flooded beginning in the early twentieth century for winter skating. During other seasons, the area was used for playing fields. Here the dark figures of boys and girls stand in sharp relief of the white ice and snow.
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