Presentation of WCTU Drinking Fountain at Owen Park, 1935


Caption: "May 25, 1935 / It was on a sunny afternoon, with the green sloping grounds of beautiful Owen Park on the Island of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts...*"


* ... "contrasting with the white sands of the beach and the blue waters of the harbor, when the lovely green bronze drinking fountain was presented by the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union to the town of Vineyard Haven. ..." (Who is seen in the photo - Eldridge or Ropes? What ever became of this fountain?)


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Date: May 1935
Location: Vineyard Haven - downtown - Owen Park

People: Eldridge, Sydna; Ropes, Alice G.
Keywords: fountains; temperance