AA-2026-4ABC35
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A girl of about six sits on a backyard swing set, not swinging, facing the camera with the flat patience of a child who has been told to hold still. The yard behind her is a catalog of postwar domestic ambition: young saplings planted close together to eventually become a privacy screen, a white split-rail fence separating identical ranch houses that were almost certainly built the same year by the same contractor. The swing set itself — heavy tubular steel, gymnastic rings hanging from one side — was the standard suburban answer to the question of what children should be doing with their afternoons when the television was off. Someone in this family had bought into the complete package: the house, the lawn, the roses, the equipment for healthy outdoor childhood. The girl's expression suggests she had a different afternoon in mind.
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Girl on the Backyard Swing, Postwar Suburb, 1950s. 1952–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-4ABC35. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/girl-on-the-backyard-swing-postwar-suburb-1950s.
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year = {1952–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-4ABC35},
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