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If we would only let them be so, children are often ready to
be our teachers. When we become thoughtful about things, we
want to know about life's purpose. Waiting to show us what it
means to keep going, what we need to do to stay on top of things,
are our sons and daughters, or the kids next door or across
the street or around the block. They are going from one step
to another, trying to meet this business of living as best they
can.
Robert Coles
Suzanne Szasz
The Newborn, 1954
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
Prints and Photographs
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LC-USZ62-130889 (1)
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Edward J. Steichen
Mother and child--sunlight,
1906
Copyprint of photogravure
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LC-USZ62-96561 (2)
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Lewis Wickes Hine
A "little mother" and
her charges, Tarente, Italy, 1918
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-90521 (3)
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Marion Post Wolcott
Mother and child at Okeechobee
migratory labor camp, Belle Glade, Florida, 1940
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF34-054160 (7)
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Unidentified photographer
Unidentified girl holding
daguerreotype case
Sixth-plate daguerreotype, 1847
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LC-USZ6-1984 (8)
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Frances Benjamin Johnston
Asian (?) baby holding
spoon or ladle, ca. 1892
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-103125 (9)
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Theodor Horydczak
Six children at swimming
hole,
ca. 1920-1950
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LC-H822-T01-1689-002 (13)
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Theodor Jung
Kids, Jackson, Ohio,
1936
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF33-004120-M1 (5)
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John Vachon
Ozark children getting
mail
from RFD box, Missouri, 1940
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF33-001862-M2 (6)
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Unidentified photographer
Tad Lincoln, son of President
Abraham Lincoln, in a Union uniform,
early 1860s
Copyprint
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LC-USZ62-13677 (10)
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Carl Werntz
Apache girl with basket,
ca. 1902
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-104560 (11)
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Marion Post Wolcott
On Saturday afternoons
and Sundays boys from nearby farms go swimming, Lake Providence,
Louisiana, 1940
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF34-054005-D (12)
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F. Holland Day
Girl in dress with white
collar, 1905
Copyprint of gum bichromate print
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LC-USZ62-83911 (4)
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Jack Delano
Farm boy along the road,
Corozal, Puerto Rico, 1941
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF33-021312-M5 (14)
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Edwin Rosskam
Boy dressed up for the
Easter parade, Chicago, Illinois, 1941
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF33-5146-M1 (15)
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John Vachon and Mary Ellen Mark
Boy on school bus, from
Look Magazine article "Operation Exodus," Boston,
Massachusetts, 1968
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LOOK Job 68-3649 (16)
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Carl Mydans
Boys playing cards
near Union Station,
Washington, D.C., 1935
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LC-USZ62-115259 (17)
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Marcus J. Clark
Children at play in narrow
street,
Paris, France, 1939
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-95978 (18)
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They're on the lookout for something to do, someplace to be,
something that will give the day some action. If you're doing
something then by golly, you're alive! One achievement after
another! Momentum matters--why not?
Robert Coles
Aaron Siskind
Boys playing with toy
swords,
Harlem, New York,
ca. 1930-1940
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-102399 (19)
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Unidentified photographer
Ballet school for baby
ballerinas, 1955
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LC-USZ62-130890 (42)
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Russell Lee
July 4th parade,
n.d.
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LC-USF-3301-13082-M4 (21)
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Russell Lee
Three children at a table,
1930s
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LC-USF33-11318-M2 (22)
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Lewis Wickes Hine
Turkish boy in Salonika,
Greece,
smiling and carrying food he
obtained from the Red Cross, 1918
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LC-USZ62-90527 (23)
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Lewis Wickes Hine
Boy working in factory,
Alexandria, Virginia, 1911
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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Walter Scott Shinn
Theodore Roosevelt with
Master Richard Derby and holding Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.,
ca. 1916
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-120232 (25)
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Toni Frissell
Lady Churchill kissing granddaughter
Emma, ca. 1950-1960
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-F9-02-5306-009-04 (26)
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Morris Gallery of the Cumberland
Portrait of a boy soldier,
Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1860-1865
Copyprint of carte de visite
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LC-B8184-10573 (27)
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Russell Lee
Watching the parade,
Vale, Oregon, 1941
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF33-13103-M5 (28)
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Alan Lomax
Young boy crying,
ca.1934-1950
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LC-USZ6-631 (29)
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Toni Frissell
Boy with shadow,
ca. 1950-1960
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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Toni
Frissell
Hong Kong-- Girl--Family---Boat,
1959
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-F9-04-5904-006-01a (31)
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Alan Lomax
African American child singer
for singing games,
Eatonville, Florida, 1935
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LOT 7414-c, no. N106a (32)
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Unidentified photographer
Nursemaid with her charge
Sixth-plate ambrotype,
hand-tinted, ca. 1855
Prints and Photographs
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LC-USZC4-5251
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It is not easy to turn away from children, near and far, no
matter the other obligations that press upon us. We want a future
for this world, and when we look at boys and girls going about
their ways and days, we are reminded of all that our sons and
daughters need to do in the course of their short but important
(sometimes momentous) lives spent here among us adults--and
so our eyes meet theirs in pictures that become beacons for
our moral sensibility, not to mention, our hearts.
Robert Coles
Lewis Wickes Hine
African American boy holding
a piece of fruit received through the Red Cross drought
relief work, Mississippi,
ca. 1930
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LC-USZ62-117291 (34)
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Jack Delano
Son of a farmer,
Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1941
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF34-048775-D (35)
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Theodor Horydczak
Copy photograph of a young
girl,
ca. 1920-1950
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LC-H824-T-1524 (36)
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Edward S. Curtis
The daughter of Bad Horses
(Cheyenne), ca. 1905
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LC-USZ62-112272 (37)
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Edward S. Curtis
Noatak child, three-quarter
length portrait, ca. 1929
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LC-USZ62-107281 (38)
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Edward S. Curtis
Tlakluit child, ca.
1910
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LC-USZ62-105382 (39)
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Unidentified photographer
Eskimo child leaning on
block of wood, 1905
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LOT 11453-3, no. 80 (40)
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Alan Lomax
Mexican girls, San Antonio,
Texas, 1934
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LC-USZ62-71615 (41)
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Lewis Wickes Hine
Drought victim from Kentucky,
in school with bottle of milk he received in a Red Cross
lunch program, ca. 1930
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LC-USZ62-101923 (20)
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Unidentified photographer
Youthful members of the "Balillas"
(Junior Fascisti), Rome, Italy, n. d.
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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Russell Lee
Two boys leaning on fence
watching parade, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 1938
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LC-USF33-011787-M2 (44)
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Florence Ward
Two African American
girls playing with yarn and knitting needle at Harlem playground,
ca. 1950-1970
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LC-USZ62-122105 (45)
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National Photo Company Collection
Two children seated on
step,
ca. 1909-1932
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LC-USZ62-106966 (46)
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Jack Delano
Children in slum, Utuado
Puerto Rico, 1942
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LC-USF34-048097-E (47)
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Dorothea Lange
Pea picker's child, Nipomo,
California, 1935
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LC-USZ62-118706 (51)
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Grey Villet
Soothing her kitten, a
girl of Hickman Mills, Missouri, sits in the ruins of her
home destroyed by a tornado, 1957
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-114377 (49)
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Gordon Parks
Children, Frederick Douglass
Housing Project, Anacostia, Washington, D.C., 1942
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LC-USF34-013369-C (50)
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Jack Delano
Daughter of a farm
laborer,
Caguas, Puerto Rico (vicinity), 1941
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LC-USF34-048743-D (48)
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All those children these pictures shown parading, seeing, posing,
even sometimes peering, all those children the world over trying
their hardest to get through the riddles of life, its variousness,
its spells of good or bad. One hopes and prays for every one
of them, for what their lives ended up being. . . .
Robert Coles
Gordon Parks
Boy at the playground,
Frederick Douglass Housing Project, Anacostia, Washington,
D.C., 1942
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LC-USF34-013372-C (52)
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Emily and Lillian Selby
Young girl,
ca. 1894-1920
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LC-USZ62-119389 (53)
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W.E.B. Du Bois Collection
African American girl
with
braided hair, 1899 or 1900
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-121107 (54)
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Clarence H. White
The ring toss, 1899
Copyprint of platinum print
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LC-USZ62-41661 (55)
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Keystone View Company
Singhalese girls, Ceylon,
ca. 1905
Copyprint of stereograph
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LC-USZ62-103631 (56)
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W.E.B. Du Bois Collection
Three African American
boys, ca. 1900
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LC-USZ62-69906 (57)
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A. Aubrey Bodine
Five Amish children posed,
standing, outdoors, ca. 1953
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-99492 (58)
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American Red Cross Collection
Italian child looking
at a copy of the Houston Post newspaper which
was wrapped around American supplies sent from Houston,
Texas, through the Junior Red Cross to the starving Italian
children in Udine, Italy, ca. 1921
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-90817 (60)
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Jack Delano
Children at the Peter's
Rest Elementary School, Christiansted, Saint Croix Island,
Virgin Islands (vicinity), 1941
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF34-047082-D (59)
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Dorothea Lange
Child of a former tenant
farmer,
Ellis County, Texas, 1937
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USF34-017102-C (61)
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Unidentified photographer
Unidentified boy seated
in chair with child standing to left
Sixth-plate daguerreotype,
ca. 1850-1860
Prints and Photographs
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LC-USZ6-1950 (62)
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Russell Lee
Getting ready for the
parade at the
fiesta of the Holy Ghost,
Santa Clara, California, 1942
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USW3-004576-D (63)
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B. W. Kilburn
Jewish children in a street
of
Warsaw, Poland, ca. 1897
Copyprint of stereograph
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LC-USZ62-98872 (64)
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Black Star
Curiosity overrode fear
in the faces of these English children taking shelter in
a ditch during a German air raid, 1940
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-93161(65)
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Toni Frissell
Girl raking leaves,
ca. 1950-1960
Copyprint of gelatin silver print
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LC-USZ62-131238 (66)
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