Children in playground swings, Hamilton Fish Park, New York – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Children in playground swings, Hamilton Fish Park, New York in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Children in playground swings, Hamilton Fish Park, New York
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Swings and a sandbox at Hamilton Fish Park, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, show a playground in a neighborhood where open space was scarce and most children lived in crowded tenement blocks. Playgrounds like this one grew out of the early twentieth-century push for supervised outdoor play, when reformers argued that city streets were no place for children to spend their free hours. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a news photography service that supplied images to newspapers during these decades. The record does not give a date, but the glass negative format and the style of the scene point to the early 1900s, a period when city parks were becoming a visible part of daily life.
| 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 | 5,760 × 4,254 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-4482 |
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