On the Playground

Kids (and some adults!) on a variety of old playgrounds. 

Oregon State University

Teenage girls on a playground, ca. 1945. Source

University of Washington Libraries

A playground in Seattle, ca. 1910. Source

Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest

A packed playground in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1946. Source

Werner Wolff, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids on a cool swirly slide thing at a playground in Philadelphia, 1954. Source

Bernard Hoffman, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids on a super fun looking apparatus called an "ocean wave", Illinois, 1946. Source

Library of Congress

Kids on the Carnegie playground on 5th Ave, NYC, 1911. Source

Werner Wolff, LIFE © Time Inc.

Some kind of tunnel/colum thing at a playground in Philadelphia, 1954. Source

Werner Wolff, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids on a playground in Philadelphia, 1954. Source

Jack Birns, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids on slides, Taipei, China, 1949. Source

Bernard Hoffman, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids on something called a "seesaw" (that looks nothing like what I consider a seesaw), Illinois, 1946. Source

Loomis Dean, LIFE © Time Inc.

A little boy on a jungle gym, Asuza, California, 1948. Source

Werner Wolff, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids playing on a big turtle/ladybug/dinosaur thing, Philadelphia, 1954. Source

Library of Virginia

A playground in Richmond, Virginia, 1954. Source

Loomis Dean, LIFE © Time Inc.

Little girl on a slide in Asuza, California, 1948. Source

Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc.

Kids on a slide at a drive-in movie theatre, San Francisco, 1948. Source

Library of Congress

A playground in NYC, ca. 1910. Source

Werner Wolff, LIFE © Time Inc.

A little boy on a swing, Philadelphia, 1954. Source

UA Archives

Kids on a playground in Upper Arlington, Ohio, 1917. Source

Nationaal Archief

Children on a playground, Harlem, NYC, 1933. Source