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Item 33642
Title: Congres National de Raquetteurs, Biddeford, 1979
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1979
Location: Biddeford
Media: Ink on paper
Item 33649
Title: Program, Congres International des Raquetteurs, Lewiston, 1985
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1985
Location: Lewiston
Media: Ink on paper
Item 33647
Title: Program, Congres International des Raquetteurs, Lewiston, 1982
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1982
Location: Lewiston
Media: Ink on paper
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.