April Pick Up Thread

[CarltonHendricks]

Picked up this bobsled team photo from Troy N.Y....Coasting was a term for bobsledding back then...I'm into bobsledding antiques so this was a great find for me...So much of what's out there is European...but this is 150% American...and big at 17"x14"....I found two newspaper stories on a yearly winter sports festival held in Albany...Troy is only 7 1/2 miles away....I'm including the one from 1888 that this team is referenced in as the "United States of Troy"...on the side of the elaborate sled is a U.S. emblem....I get the feeling from the description of all the festivities of the event…and the mile long parade of sleds that people in the upper New York state area were eager to party...probably from being cooped up from snow...The sled looks like a work of engineering...From the serious uniforms the thirteen members must have taken a lot of pride in their club.