Kids

It's November in 1954 and you're an 8 year-old boy; given the following options, what do you do?

a) Watch TV;
b) Play with cool toy MG sports car;
c) Unroll giant set of maps and trace the borders of Czechoslovakia.

Made sense to me then. Actually, I still understand it. View full image.

July 10, 1924. Washington, D.C. "Push ball at Tidal Basin." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1905. "Country store, Venezuela." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1910. "Potomac School." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.

June 28, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Girl in bathing suit." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1923. "Lucille Layton." Whose talents, to judge from her photographic oeuvre, seems to have been at least peripherally related to the piano. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1938. "Liana de Bayle, daughter of the Minister of Nicaragua and Senora de Bayle." Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.