AA-2026-A30CC8
On the image
Somewhere in a well-kept municipal park, probably during a summer civic fair or centennial celebration, two girls in their Sunday dresses have stopped to pose in front of a pair of painted canvas tepees erected on the lawn as educational atmosphere. The smaller one wears a straw hat with flowers, which is the correct hat for a girl attending an outdoor event in the 1950s, and she is holding her purse the way her mother taught her. The tepees are decorated with geometric symbols applied by someone who had clearly read a brochure on the subject, and a man in a folding canvas chair behind them is ignoring the whole production. This was the era when municipal recreation departments regularly installed a "Native American village" at summer fairs as a gesture toward history, and nobody in the organizing committee had thought of a reason not to. The girls understood only that this was the spot designated for the photograph, and they stood there accordingly, which is the most reliable thing about any public event.
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Two Girls at the Tepees, 1950s Public Park Display. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-A30CC8. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/two-girls-at-the-tepees-1950s-public-park-display.
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title = {Two Girls at the Tepees, 1950s Public Park Display},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-A30CC8},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/two-girls-at-the-tepees-1950s-public-park-display}
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