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Speed Skating Course on Humboldt Park Lagoon, 1902
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While most of the lagoons were used for free skating, races were also popular among youths through much of the twentieth century. Here a race course is marked with flags on the frozen lagoon in front of the Humboldt Park Fieldhouse in 1902.
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