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[New York City - children on the street: hot weather street scene - Boys shooting marbles] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[New York City - children on the street: hot weather street scene - Boys shooting marbles], [between 1908 and 1915] — historic photograph
[New York City - children on the street: hot weather street scene - Boys shooting marbles], [between 1908 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Boys crouched in the dust of a New York City street to shoot marbles, a scene the caption ties to a hot day. Streets like this one served as playgrounds for children in crowded neighborhoods, where open lots were scarce and games spilled out of tenement doorways. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs made in New York in the early 1900s, and its date range of 1908 to 1915 is an estimate taken from the original caption card, so the exact day remains uncertain.

Created / published[between 1908 and 1915]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Games--Marbles; Geogr.; Children--At play.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,128 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144815

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