Playground Ass'n Meeting, German dance by N.Y. school children, New York – Antique Print
(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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Playground Ass'n Meeting, German dance by N.Y. school children, New York
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A meeting of a playground association provides the setting for this scene, in which New York schoolchildren perform a German dance before an audience of adults. Demonstrations like this were common in the early twentieth-century playground movement, when reformers promoted supervised recreation and folk dancing as wholesome activity for city children, many of them from immigrant families. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of glass negatives made by the Bain News Service, which photographed New York events and street life for newspapers. The record gives no date, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact occasion is uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,753 × 4,185 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4159 |
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