“Children swinging on pier rope at beach,” between 1900 and 1920, by Detroit Publishing Co., via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Category: landscape
Life in gardens: maypole swing
“Children swinging on maypole, La Forge, Missouri. Project school at Southeast Missouri Farms,” August 1938, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Life in gardens: tree swing
“The swing, a study of Mrs. Turner and her children,” 1910, by Gertrude Käsebier, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Mrs. Turner is probably Käsebier’s daughter, Hermine, who took over her mother’s photography studio in the 1920s.
Vintage landscape: tire swing
“Swing made of an old rubber tire. Gibbs City, Michigan,” April 1937, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
(You can pause on either picture by putting your cursor over the image and clicking on the ‘stop’ symbol.)
There’s another wonderful swing made from an up-cycled car part here on the blog Playscapes.
ADDENDUM: To see this type of swing in action, click here.
Life in gardens: street swing
Girl swinging, Woodbine, Iowa, 1940, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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