AA-2026-9DF97F
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A boy of about four sits on the hood of a 1952 Chevrolet, parked in a wooded area during what appears to be early spring. He wears a dark coat and cap, positioned at ease on the warm metal as though this were a natural place for a child to rest during a family outing. The car's Illinois license plate is visible. In the 1950s, a car hood was still considered a reasonable seat—warm, accessible, and part of the landscape a family moved through. No one had yet decided that children required constant supervision or that sitting on machinery was unsafe. The boy looks directly at the camera with the unselfconscious ease of someone being documented doing exactly what children did then: occupy whatever convenient surface an adult had driven them to.
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Boy on 1952 Chevrolet, Illinois. 1952–1954. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-9DF97F. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/boy-on-1952-chevrolet-illinois.
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title = {Boy on 1952 Chevrolet, Illinois},
year = {1952–1954},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-9DF97F},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/boy-on-1952-chevrolet-illinois}
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