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A boy of about seven stands in a backyard in suspenders, the lone child old enough to be vertical at a gathering otherwise organized around two large coach-built prams — the deep-bodied, spring-suspension kind that 1950s parents bought with the seriousness of a car purchase, confident that a baby transported in anything less substantial was being somehow cheated. The adults at the picnic table behind him have arranged themselves in the loose, unselfconscious way of a family that does not think of itself as posing, because nobody has yet told them the camera changes that. A woman in a pink apron stands at the near pram with the proprietary ease of someone whose job title that afternoon is simply 'mother,' a role that in this decade came with a uniform and a specific radius. The boy, though surrounded by family, has the expression of someone who has been told to stand still and is failing at it. The prams will outlast the decade, handed down or sold on, and the babies inside them will grow up to buy strollers that fold flat and weigh eight pounds — deeply suspicious of anything that couldn't fit in a hatchback.
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Family Backyard Gathering with Twin Prams, 1950s. 1952–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-32C9B0. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/family-backyard-gathering-with-twin-prams-1950s.
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year = {1952–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-32C9B0},
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