1898 Making Artificial Ice ~ NYC Ice Palace Skating Rink Article, Photos

This is an original illustrated magazine article that has been carefully extracted from an 1898 issue of Metropolitan Magazine. With photos and details of the ice making machine at the old Ice Palace at 107th and Lexington in NYC.

Photos include:

ï Scraping the Ice in Order to Obtain a Skating Glare
ï The Way the Rink Floor is Flooded
ï The Surface Ready for Freezing
ï Sharpening Skates for the Evening Crowds
ï One of the Hundred Horsepower Engines, the Work of Which Secures the Arctic Temperature

Title: Science Yoked to Sport by James L. Warren

Subtitle: Artificial Ice Rinks

Length (includes front & back): 4 pages

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 6 x 9

Condition: Excellent (the atticpaper watermark does not appear on the actual article)