Children at Play – Object #6

Playing Marbles

Download photograph

<p>A group of about fourteen children stand in front of a brown building in this color photograph, watching three boys, who wear overalls, long-sleeved shirts and hats, play marbles in the gravel.</p>

A group of Latino children watches boys play marbles at a Farm Security Administration labor camp in south Texas, 1942

Questions:

What game are the boys playing?

What do you think the weather was like on the day this photograph was taken? How can you tell?

How can you tell this photograph was taken in the past?

Citations

Rothstein, Arthur, photographer. Boys Playing Marbles, FSA…Labor Camp, Robstown, Texas. January 1942. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Color Slides and Transparencies Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.