Ice Polo Cabinet Cards C. 1890

Ice polo was basically the same sport as roller polo, only played on ice wearing ice skates. Rare photos.

 

                                                 Younger ice polo players from Vermont.

1880s Women's Roller Polo Team

Photos of women's roller polo teams are quite hard to find. This team is from Wisconsin and the photo is dated 1886.  

Central League Polo Team '03 - '04

 

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Large cabinet photo of the Danville Illinois Central League Polo Team. Photo without mat measures 

10 1/4" x 8 1/4".  Nice composite photograph with team and individual photos. Larger roller polo photos are harder to come by. 1903/1904 season.

1885 Providence Skating Rink Trade Card / Polo

         A pretty strange but interesting skating rink trade card - "Resemblance"

    Advertisement for a Christmas Eve (not Christmas Evening) Roller Polo match between teams in Providence and Pawtucket Rhode Island

Large Early 1880s Roller Polo Team Photo

Over-sized cabinet photo of an unknown seven member roller polo team, early 1880s. Many early teams had pretty wild uniforms. Interesting setting that looks like it's out of the wild west.

Rare 1884 Constitution By - Laws and Rules of Polo On Skates

Very early and scarce Roller Polo rule book 

1890's Roller Polo Team

                          Unidentified 1890s roller polo team, photographed in New Haven. Uneven  scalloping of three edges on the cabinet card would indicate the photo was taken in the first half of the 1890's, or even as early as the last few years of the 1880's.