Toddler on Red Rocking Horse, Christmas Morning, 1950s American Living Room

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Toddler on Red Rocking Horse, Christmas Morning, 1950s American Living Room — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1953–1959

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On Christmas morning in a 1950s American living room, a toddler sits astride a red pressed-steel rocking horse with the expression of someone who has just received exactly what he wanted and already understands this is the high point of the year. Behind him a woman in a purple dress steadies him with the practiced calm of a parent who has already concluded that the toy is too big for him but that this is a problem for January. The room is doing its best: a Christmas tree crowds the left edge, unwrapped boxes are still scattered on the burgundy carpet, and a brand-new toy barbecue grill on yellow wheels sits nearby — a child-sized replica of the backyard appliance that every American man of the decade believed separated him from the previous generation. The rocking horse has price-tag stickers still attached, which means someone wrapped it badly or not at all and is hoping the child won't remember. He won't, but the horse will survive him by decades in a barn somewhere, still red.

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