swings
27 photos tagged swings, from 15 members of Flickr Commons.
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Members using this tag
- The Library of Congress
- State Library of Queensland
- Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections
- Mennonite Church USA Archives
- Florida Memory
- The Library of Virginia
- Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County
- Stockholm Transport Museum
- National Library of Medicine
- New York Public Library
- Cornell University Library
- Nationaal Archief
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The last upload was August 2025.
View of the Exhibition Grounds in Brisbane, ca. 1896 from State Library of Queensland uploaded August 2025
Snow at Hokkaido International School, Japan from Mennonite Church USA Archives uploaded November 2024
Two women posing on a swing, Coolum, 1933 from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2022
Nursery school from National Library of Medicine uploaded September 2018
HC07491 from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County uploaded August 2018
4 men rolling barrel in park (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded December 2017
HC00501 from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County uploaded June 2017
Children playing on swing at a FERA nursery - Green Cove Springs from Florida Memory uploaded June 2016
Boca Chica Beach: Big Coppitt Key, Florida from Florida Memory uploaded January 2013
Captive Flying Machine, Willow Grove Park, ca. 1905 from Library Company of Philadelphia uploaded January 2012
Carousel and fairground workers from North East Museums uploaded December 2011
Children on a swing in front of house in Stockholm 1942 from Stockholm Transport Museum uploaded August 2011
Mary Maguire on the cover of The Queenslander Pictorial, 1938 from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2010
Camp Ebenezer: African American Children Play on Swings from Mennonite Church USA Archives uploaded July 2010
[Three people on swing in the countryside] from Cornell University Library uploaded November 2009
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Carnegie playground 5th Ave. (LOC)
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marysz said:
A charming photograph of what now would now be considered an incredibly unsafe playground. This picture shows that Carnegie built playgrounds as well as libraries for the urban poor.
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Wystan said:
One hardly could call Fifth Avenue "poverty row." Another Bain/LOC photo of the 5th Avenue Carnegie Playground:
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Wystan said:
Here's the story, from The New York Times, August 1, 1911: "The Parks and Playgrounds Association of New York City opened yesterday its fifteenth vacant lot playground, on a plot loaned by Andrew Carnegie. This playground is on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Ninety-first Street, and is equipped with swings, sandboxes, teeter boards, slides, basket ball court, and other equipment. "The opening was not advertised, but there were 200 children on hand when it was opened. The children came from the section immediately east. The association sends play leaders into the tenement sections, organizes the children into guilds and takes them to the ground. Two leaders are in charge at the ground. The association is supported by voluntary contributions."
