Three children eating watermelon, wearing paper hats – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Three children eating watermelon, wearing paper hats, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Three children eating watermelon, wearing paper hats
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Three children sit side by side in paper hats, each with a wedge of watermelon, a scene that feels more like a summer afternoon than a working market. Images like this were common in the early twentieth century, when photographers and printmakers often turned rural and market life into everyday genre pictures of childhood. Watermelon was a staple at farm stands and roadside markets, and it was also a favorite seasonal treat, so the picture quietly links the labor of the market with the leisure of the harvest. The paper hats, a cheap and familiar accessory of the period, add a playful note worth noticing.
| Original scan | 3,676 × 2,922 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12689_SummerschoolmemoriesWorldTeleg |
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