AA-2026-3C14BC
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A boy of perhaps ten stands on a frozen pond wearing a leather hockey helmet, which in the 1950s was considered sufficient head protection and which most boys considered optional. He has stopped moving long enough to be photographed, hands clasped in front of him in the posture of someone who has just figured out how to stand still on ice and is not ready to give that up. The pond is a public one in the loosest sense — a field that froze — and the cars parked along the far bank belong to the adults who brought the children and then apparently had nothing else to do on a Saturday. Another skater stands in the middle distance, facing away, also doing very little. The whole arrangement depended on a winter cold enough to freeze a field pond solid, a threshold that communities in the northern United States and Canada treated as a reliable annual event and have since learned to treat as a pleasant surprise.
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Boy on a Frozen Pond, Helmeted for Hockey, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-3C14BC. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/boy-on-a-frozen-pond-helmeted-for-hockey-1950s.
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title = {Boy on a Frozen Pond, Helmeted for Hockey, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-3C14BC},
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