Item 9499 - Mixed Doubles Tennis Match, Squirrel Island, ca. 1911
- Item 9499 - Mixed Doubles Tennis Match, Squirrel Island, ca. 1911
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- Item 9499
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Image Info While her partner William Penn Whitehouse (forecourt right) looks on, Florence "Tossie" Hayes (backcourt right) sends a volley towards her opponent, Margaret "Peg" Gruener (forecourt left) during a tennis match on Squirrel Island, circa 1911. Gruener's partner, Raymond Stanley (not visible in photo) records that they lost the match.
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Up on the hillside beyond the tennis courts is a large cottage (left) which belonged to the Stanley family. Called "Sunny Haven," it was built in 1908 and destroyed in a row fire in 1932.