IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1944
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Viola Peters Hamilton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.73/ N-17,402
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Viola Peters was married three times, to a Paul, a Halliday, and a Hamilton. Here she does a three-minute performance birling on a 36-inch-diameter ball in a pool, at the 1944 Sportsman Show in Atlantic City, NJ. She wears a two-piece bathing suit. One of 116 images collected for copying by Darlene Ricker between 1990 and 1997, as part of a project of the Bear River Mi'kmaq Reserve, Bear River, NS. Initiated by Chief Frank Meuse, the project, set up to preserve the reserve's history, resulted in a book by Darlene Ricker, 1997. The Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, contributed the copywork for all photographs lent to the project, on the understanding that they would keep the copy negatives, but return the originals and provide the lenders with 8x10 prints of each item loaned for copying.
KEYWORDS
women; Paul, Viola Peters; sportsmen; shows; Sportsman Show; New Jersey, Atlantic City; log birling; bathing suits, women's
