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The Wading pool at the children's health camp, where hundreds of under-nourished aenemic, pre-tubercular children have been given the advantages of good and adequate food, fresh air, out-door play, proper rest, etc. – Vintage Wall Art

The Wading pool at the children's health camp, where hundreds of under-nourished aenemic, pre-tubercular children have been given the advantages of good and adequate food, fresh air, out-door play, proper rest, etc., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
The Wading pool at the children's health camp, where hundreds of under-nourished aenemic, pre-tubercular children have been given the advantages of good and adequate food, fresh air, out-door play, proper rest, etc., [between 1910 and 1920]. 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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The Wading pool at the children's health camp, where hundreds of under-nourished aenemic, pre-tubercular children have been given the advantages of good and adequate food, fresh air, out-door play, proper rest, etc. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A wading pool, rather than a classroom or dining hall, is the centerpiece of this view of a children's health camp. The caption describes the children as undernourished, anemic, and pre-tubercular, and the program combined good food, fresh air, outdoor play, and rest. Camps like this were part of the early twentieth-century push to treat poor health in children through open-air living, since fresh air and sunlight were widely believed to strengthen children at risk of tuberculosis. The picture is worth studying for how it shows that treatment as play.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesCaption no. 3.; photo no. 5281. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1972:133.
SubjectsChildren--Health & welfare--1910-1920. Children playing in water--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,348 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-178892

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