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TYRO (LOC)

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• cotinis said:

  Ice Yacht (or Ice Boat) Tyro shows up in a couple of NY Times articles:
  -17 January 1920
  -13 December 1915--mentions that owner is Thomas Henry Grant.
  -22 January 1918 NY Times mentions a collision between Gull and Tyro in a race at Red Bank, New Jersey. Given the adjacent photo of crowds on the ice is labeled "At Red Bank", it seems likely this is the site of these photos.
  
  A recent reference mentions the Tyro, appears to be the same yacht--Fond Memories--January 2002. Remarkably, the correspondent, Robert Clark II, says (no date given) that:
  My family still has the Tyro and we wait patiently for the ice to set up in the flats each year.

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks! We'll add the information in the source data and reload the description.

• Jimmy Mac said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage New Jersey, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• HeathenClerk said:

  Yeah I was going to guess Red Bank as well - a lot of my research on my hometown a bit farther south of there in the New York Tribune microfilm files at the New York Public Library from 1914-1917 crossed paths with many such photos from Red Bank.