Quentin Roosevelt, son of US President Theodore Roosevelt, and one of his “White House Gang” playmates, Rosewell Flower Pinckney, in 1902. The White House Gang was made up of the young companions of the Roosevelt children who wrecked havoc on White House decorem, shooting spit balls at a portrait of Andrew Jackson and wearing fake monocles, among other childhood pranks.
Source: White House Historical Association
Howard Sochurek, Chubby boy’s hand holding toy six-shooter over two young boys lying in a country dirt road, giggling over their make-believe bullet wounds while two others walk in to survey the damage during a game of “cops and robbers”, Kansas, USA, 1952.
A young boy climbing up a replica of Winnie the Pooh’s treehouse. Photograph by John Brenneis. USA, June 1960.
Photograph by Loomis Dean. California, 1954.
Children playing in a treehouse. Photograph by Arthur Schatz. Riverhead, New York, August 1967.
Child in a Doorway, circa 1910s
From Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
