Girl at a Public Park Gathering, 1950s

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Girl at a Public Park Gathering, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A girl in her early teens sits on the grass at a public park or field, posing for the camera with one leg extended and the other bent, wearing a striped cotton blouse and dark shoes. Behind her, scattered across the open meadow, adults and other visitors stand or sit in small clusters under the shade of trees that line the field's edge—the casual congregation of a summer afternoon when parks were where families went on weekends and children were allowed to roam between the blankets. A man in a white shirt and dark trousers stands alone in the middle distance, holding what appears to be a surveying rod or similar implement, apparently conducting some kind of measurement or official business while the social life of the park continued around him unbothered, which suggests this was a time when a government functionary with a clipboard could work in a public space without anyone asking who he was or what he was doing there.

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