Kids

First grade at work, 1927

  

Just out of bed--Christmas morning, 1897

 

Little Parisians out for a holiday in Monceau Park, Paris, France, ca. 1905

 

The sponge bath, 1897

 

The tea party, 1902

 

Tired of play, 1894-95

 

Source: Library of Congress Stereograph Collection

Kids

Group of children at a playground, 1937

  

Group of kids on a street

  

 Hotdog stand in North End, corner of Hanover 

and Blackstone Street, Boston, 1937

  

 Little cowgirls, ca. 1954

  

North End children cool off with ice cart on Copp's Hill, Boston, ca. 1930

 

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Playgrounds

These photos from G. G. Bain are all labeled "N.Y. Playground, 1910-1915."

Kids

Boy in pie eating contest

 

Boys driving horse drawn mower

  

Children's home

  

Cop joins baseball peekers at the fence, ca. 1930

  

Dyan and Robert at 80 Dakota Street, Dorchester, April 1959

 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Kids

These photos of kids are from G.G. Bain.

 Children in playground swings, Hamilton Fish Park, New York

  

Children playing in street, New York, April 2, 1909

  

Children with tricycles, playing in street, New York, April 2, 1909

  

 Gert. Taylor

  

Knitting bee

Costică Acsinte

 Child with painting of cats

  

 Child with toys

  

 Girl with sled

[complete with fake snow!]

  

 Two boys with an accordion

  

Two children with a New Year fir, 1943-1944

 

Source: Costică Acsinte Collection

Kids

From the Library of Congress Stereograph Collection.

 "Now smile a little dolly, while I take your picture", 1902

  

 Children are children the wide world round--little folks 

playing Hop Scotch in Cashmere [Kashmir], India, 1903

  

 I'd rather sleep then eat, 1905

  

 I've found them, 1904

  

 In the daisy field, 1903

  

Patchwork, 1903

Dorothea Lange - Kids

Children just seem to naturally be the best photographic subjects.

 Migratory child in squatter camp before hop season opens. 

Her little brothers work in the field. Washington, Yakima Valley, August 1939

  

 Millworker's children eating watermelon on porch of rented house. 

Six miles north of Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina, July 1939

  

 Recreational facilities for the children, Kern 

migrant camp, California, November 1936

  

 Rural children at R.F.D. box, near Fruitland, Idaho, October 1939

  

 Sunday school for migrant children in a potato pickers' 

camp. Kern County, California, March 1937

  

The Free children in doorway of their home in Sunday clothes. 

Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon, October 1939

Dorothea Lange - Kids

 Children and home of migratory cotton workers. Migratory camp, 

southern San Joaquin Valley, California, November 1936

  

 Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato 

pickers' camp near Shafter, California, May 1937

  

 Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp. California, February 1939

  

 Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. 

Randolph County, North Carolina, July 1939

  

 Entire enrollment of Lincoln Bench School. Teacher in center. 

Near Ontario, Oregon, Malheur County, October 1939

  

 Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. 

Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children 

during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley. February 1939

 

Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936