A Glimpse of Stocking

I mentioned that among the glass-plate negatives found at the Hobart museum was the original of the Old Maids' Basket Ball team 1907 portrait and that the negative was a little more racy, so here you go:


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

Top row, left to right: Miss Gish (Latin), Anna Michelson Morton, Ann Fleck Ingraham, Ruth Bullock Mackey, Olga Neef Bullock
Bottom row: unknown, Lena Triebess, Bess Hayward, Tekla Anderson, Mary Portmess.

Can you image running around a basketball court in all those clothes?

I wonder if Olga Neef Bullock wore that turtleneck sweater when she was actually playing basketball … if she suffered from the cold, I suppose she wouldn't have minded the tropical heat when she and Oliver went to live in Panama Canal Zone.

Another glass-plate negative shows the same team in another pose, probably on the same day. That curve on the floor looks like a basketball court marking, so perhaps they played their games in this genteelly wallpapered venue.


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.