AA-2026-B4B381
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A girl in a bright blue shirt stands in a dirt clearing surrounded by tall conifers, one arm raised as if she has just released or is about to catch a ball. Around her, other children are scattered across the open ground, some in mid-motion, their postures suggesting a game in progress. A boy in an orange shirt stands apart, watching. The boulders placed at intervals around the perimeter suggest this is a designated play area, likely at a campground or park where the forest service had cleared and arranged space for organized recreation. No adult is visible supervising. Children then were sent outdoors to play unsupervised in such places, trusted to manage their own games and their own safety, a confidence that would shift decisively in the decades that followed.
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Children Playing Ball in a Forest Clearing, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-B4B381. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/children-playing-ball-in-a-forest-clearing-1950s.
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title = {Children Playing Ball in a Forest Clearing, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-B4B381},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/children-playing-ball-in-a-forest-clearing-1950s}
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