Girl in Blue Swimsuit at Cricket Ground, 1950s Chicago

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Girl in Blue Swimsuit at Cricket Ground, 1950s Chicago — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

AA-2026-668117

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A girl of about nine stands on a cricket pitch in a blue striped one-piece swimsuit, her posture formal, her expression composed as though for a portrait. Behind her a canvas changing-tent and a rubbish bin occupy the boundary, and across the field small white figures dot the grass in mid-match, entirely unconcerned with the child standing alone in her swimming clothes on the playing surface. The casual juxtaposition—the simultaneous existence of recreational cricket and a girl in her bathing suit at what appears to be the same public ground—registers the 1950s American assumption that a sports facility was simply a place where different leisure activities happened in sequence or overlap, with minimal separation or protocol. She wears no cover-up, no explanation, no apparent embarrassment. The photograph documents not a planned event but an ordinary afternoon when a child could change into a swimsuit at a cricket club and stand about while the match continued, because no one yet thought such a thing required a designated area, a schedule, or permission.

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