Child's Play

Boys at their game of skittle. The one in the middle looks an acolyte.
Picture made on the Place d'Erlon in the city of Reims, 1917.

Childhood Continuing in Wartime Reims

Boys play a game of skittles on Place d’Erlon in Reims in 1917. The ordinary activity contrasts with the city’s wartime damage and shows how children continued to create moments of play within a landscape shaped by bombardment and military presence.

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