Quarter-mile start and finish
Draper Corporation Field Day
August 10, 1929
Hopedale Town Park
The photos on this page were taken by the Draper Corporation photography department and are from the Bancroft Library Hopedale history collection. Looks like the photographer preferred getting pictures of races to any other event. The last of the field days was in 1931 The end of them was almost certainly caused by the Depression. With the stock market crash a couple of months away, what you see here is a good time at the end of an era. While the field days continued for two more years, even the programs were shorter and didn’t contain pictures as they had in previous years. In 1932 and 1933, carnivals were held, and then they ended also. See below for an idea of how things went over the next several years.
Draper Field Days – The First 20 Years
The article above is for what evidently was the last Draper field day. It appears that they were replaced for two years by carnivals, as seen in the articles below, and then they ended also.
