AA-2026-BE78CA
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A child stands alone in deep snow wearing a yellow coat and dark pants, arms spread wide in an unselfconscious gesture of joy or abandon. The snow is heavy enough that it has buried the landscape into an undifferentiated white plane, with only the dark suggestion of trees and a distant structure visible through the haze. The child is doing what children did then when winter came and the yard became impassable: going outside anyway, dressed in whatever coat the household owned, and standing in the cold until called back inside. The photograph itself is deteriorating — speckled and faded across its surface — which means someone kept it for seventy years before deciding to scan it, probably finding it in a box after someone died. The child has long since stopped spreading their arms in the snow.
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Child in Snow, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-BE78CA. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/child-in-snow-1950s.
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title = {Child in Snow, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-BE78CA},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/child-in-snow-1950s}
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