Ice skate worn by Maxine Turquette
date: label: Date made
content: 1940
name: label: user
content: Turquette, Maxine Kennedy
label: maker
content: M. N. Arnold Shoe Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: White leather ice skate with metal blade. This is a match to catalog number 1977.0183.03. According to the donor, Maxine Turquette the boots were purchased at Shuneman's department store in St. Paul, Minnesota in the fall of 1940. The skates were purchased at Kennedy Brothers Arms Company, a St. Paul's Sporting Goods store. The blades were mounted on the boots by an old man who had a small shop on West Kellogg Boulevard near Seven Points in St. Paul. The donor used these skates in the St. Paul area during the 1940s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Ice Skating
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Maxine Kennedy Turquette
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0183.04
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0183.04
label: accession number
content: 1977.0183
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ice skate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 8 cm x 24 cm; 9 7/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 9 7/16 in