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[Rural scenes of children fishing: barefoot boy" on dirt road with wood pole]" – Vintage Print

[Rural scenes of children fishing: barefoot boy" on dirt road with wood pole]" — historic photograph
[Rural scenes of children fishing: barefoot boy" on dirt road with wood pole]". Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with [Rural scenes of children fishing: barefoot boy" on dirt road with wood pole]", a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A barefoot boy walks along a dirt road with a long wooden fishing pole over his shoulder, the kind of simple tackle that rural children of the period often made themselves from a sapling or cane. The picture dates to roughly 1907 to 1910, a time when photographers working for magazines and railroad or land promotion projects regularly documented country life for city audiences. Scenes like this one, showing childhood unhurried and close to the land, were popular precisely because they presented rural routines as wholesome and familiar. Look at the bare feet and the road itself, which show how much of daily life still happened on unpaved ground.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1907-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan923 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123605

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