Teenage Boys Hauling Snow Block, Pine Forest Camp, 1950s

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Teenage Boys Hauling Snow Block, Pine Forest Camp, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Two teenage boys are carrying a chunk of compacted snow through a pine forest, grinning at the camera with the particular satisfaction of boys who have found something heavy to lift. In the 1950s, a school or church group outing to a mountain camp was a reliable annual ritual, planned with great organizational effort to deliver adolescent boys into nature for a weekend, on the theory that physical exertion in cold air built character. The snow block itself is the project — not a snowball, not a snowman, but a serious architectural-grade slab that required two people and represents someone's ambitious and short-lived plan. Two more boys watch from behind with the expressions of people who were smart enough not to volunteer. Whatever structure was being built will not survive the afternoon, a fact that has not yet occurred to anyone carrying it.

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