AA-2026-DEA763
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A woman and a young girl stand at a display table during what appears to be a community fair or educational event, examining a wooden model of a Native American village complete with miniature tipis and figures. The girl wears a coonskin cap and blue jacket, dressed as a settler or frontiersman for the occasion, while the woman beside her points at the diorama with the patient attention of a docent or parent explaining history. Behind them, full-scale canvas tipis have been erected on a manicured suburban lawn, and other families move between similar educational stations scattered across the field. The setup reflects the 1950s approach to teaching American history through living recreation and tactile display—a period when such exhibitions assumed children would learn by costume and miniature, that history was something you dressed up to understand, and that putting Native American villages on a suburban lawn for weekend instruction was an ordinary family outing. No one in the frame appears to question the premise that this model or these structures represented anything other than educational fact.
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Indian Village Exhibit at Children's Fair, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-DEA763. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/indian-village-exhibit-at-children-s-fair-1950s.
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title = {Indian Village Exhibit at Children's Fair, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-DEA763},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/indian-village-exhibit-at-children-s-fair-1950s}
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