AA-2026-C97087
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A girl of about eight sits in a green-framed lawn chair in what is plainly a well-kept suburban backyard, wearing a blue-and-white gingham dress with a dark collar and a small red pin at the chest — the kind of outfit that in the 1950s said Sunday afternoon or special occasion, the two being nearly indistinguishable. The dress reaches almost to her ankles, a length that would have struck her mother as correct and would strike anyone who lived through the subsequent decades as a minor puzzle about where all that fabric went. She is smiling the slightly sideways smile of a child who has decided to cooperate with the camera but on her own terms. Someone with a new colour camera and a tidy lawn had concluded that this combination of child, chair, and grass constituted a picture worth preserving, and they were right, though probably not for the reason they thought.
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Girl in Gingham Dress, Suburban Backyard, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-C97087. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/girl-in-gingham-dress-suburban-backyard-1950s.
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title = {Girl in Gingham Dress, Suburban Backyard, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-C97087},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/girl-in-gingham-dress-suburban-backyard-1950s}
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