Children at Play – Object #7

Untitled Photograph, possibly related to Jumping Rope on Sidewalk...

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<p>One girl jumps in the air, while two others turn a jump rope on a sidewalk in front of a brick apartment building. Five children stand near the rope-turner watching.</p>

A group of children jumping rope on the sidewalk in Chicago, 1941

Questions:

What are these children doing? Do children today do this?

Describe the children in this photograph.

Describe the houses in the background. How are they similar to and different from where you live?

Citations

Edwin Rosskam, photographer. Untitled photograph, possibly related to Jumping rope on sidewalk in one of the better neighborhoods of the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois. April 1941. Farm Security Administration -Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.