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Wayback Wednesday 2018-51 Mildred Kribs Bulmer w_ Skis circa 1910 lg cropped
Mildred Kribs (Photo courtesy of Wendy Kimmel)

It’s Wayback Wednesday: Skiing in skirts

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Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we’ll be sharing a vintage photo and asking our readers to chime in with anything you can recall about the photo, other related memories, or even a funny caption. Have some vintage photos of your own? Send them to [email protected] and we may share them with our readers!

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This is Mildred Kribs (sometimes spelled Kribbs) ca. 1910. It was typical for women to ski in skirts at the time, and skiers used a single pole to propel themselves. We don’t know if the image on her sweater has any significance — do any Doppler readers recognize it?
Mildred was 14 or 15 at the time, her granddaughter Wendy Kimmel tells us. Mildred grew up in Huntsville with her family; her father, Henry Kribs, was a blacksmith in Huntsville. His shop was just up the hill from the current location of the Post Office. Mildred moved to Toronto as a young woman.
Thanks, Wendy, for sharing this photo with us!

Mildred Kribs (Photo courtesy of Wendy Kimmel)

Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab

Last week we shared this photo:

 

This 1960 was from the then-Ontario Department of Travel and Publicity’s Publicity Branch, and would likely have been used in a campaign to lure winter visitors to the area. We don’t know where in Huntsville it was taken, but Doppler readers guessed both Tally Ho and the old Huntsville Ski Club south of town, neither of which exist today. (Photo courtesy of the Archive of Ontario)

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  1. Morgan Earl says:
    December 20, 2018 at 9:29 am

    Re: old time skiing,
    I studied the crest on the
    Skiers sweater. It appears similar to the MAAA snowshoe and toboggan club of Montreal as it incorporates the “ Winged Wheel” of that Athletic club at the turn of that century.
    I have a group portrait of its members created by the famous photographer William Notman.
    It’s history and I would be happy tp share it with anyone.