Keywords: Rackets
Item 28721
Lawn tennis players on court, Saco, 1888
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1888 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 101519
Roger B. Shepard and sons, Biddeford, ca. 1916
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1916 Location: Biddeford; St. Paul Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
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.
