Infant in Plaid Folding Stroller, Suburban Garden, 1950s

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Infant in Plaid Folding Stroller, Suburban Garden, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Sometime in the 1950s a parent carried a baby outside, positioned a folding stroller on a well-kept lawn, and then stepped back to take a portrait of the child gripping the stroller's front bar with the focused intensity of someone who has just discovered that objects can be held. The stroller itself is a period piece — lightweight tubular frame, plaid fabric, the postwar American conviction that everything, including infant transport, should be cheerful and portable. Getting the baby outside for fresh air was not optional in this era; pediatric opinion held that sunlight and garden air were close to medicinal, and parents complied with the seriousness of people following a prescription. The blur that overtook the child's head suggests the baby moved at exactly the wrong moment, which was also the moment the parent decided was perfect, a dynamic that has not changed in the decades since.

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