Children at Play – Object #2 – Arkansas Primary Source Sets

Four Young Children Loading Rocks Into a Wagon...

<p>Four very young children load rocks into a wagon in this sepia-toned photograph. A small child sits on the ground next to a wooden pony toy.</p>

Photograph taken by Jessie Tarbox Beals, ca. 1915, of four young children loading rocks into a wagon while a smaller child sits on the ground playing with his toy ponycart

Questions:

What do you think these children are doing?

What toys do you see in this picture? Do children today play with any of these kinds of toys?

What questions do you have about this picture?

Citations

Jessie Tarbox Beals, photographer. “Four young children load rocks into a wagon while a smaller child sits on the ground playing with his toy ponycart,” ca. 1915. Goldsberry Collection of Open-Air Schools, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division